Just over 100 years ago, in March 1921, following the inauguration of Warren G. Harding as the 29th president of the United States, the outgoing President Woodrow Wilson and his wife, Edith, retired from the White House into their new home in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Today the house is known as the President Woodrow Wilson House, a National Trust Historic Site.

This was a significant move for Wilson and for Washington. Presidents customarily retired to their home state following the end of their presidencies; however, for Wilson, Washington had become his home city and was where he lived with his first wife, Ellen Axson Wilson, who died during Wilson’s first term, as well as Edith Bolling Gault, whom he married just before his second term in office. Read More...