Mrs. Harrison's Suggestion for the Extension of the Executive Mansion

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Mrs. Harrison's Suggestion for the Extension of the Executive Mansion

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National Archives at College Park

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Harrison, Caroline Lavinia Scott, 1832-1892

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Caroline Scott Harrison was a music teacher and wife of the 23rd President, Benjamin Harrison. Fascinated by history and preservation, in 1890 she helped found the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) serving as its first President General. The centennial of President Washington’s inauguration heightened the nation’s interest in its heroic past, and in 1890 Caroline Scott Harrison lent her prestige as First Lady to the founding of the National Society of the Daug...