The 2010 White House ornament honors President William McKinley and the United States Marine Corps Band. The face of the ornament features the band greeting guests as they arrive at the White House. The reverse features the band playing for President & Mrs. McKinley. These ornaments are Made In America of gold plated brass and enamel.

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The 2009 White House ornament commemorates the 24th presidency and is the second of two produced in Cleveland’s honor. The ornament illustrates the special place the Christmas tree was in their holiday celebrations. The central hologram depicts the south facade of the White House after an evening of snowfall. The warm glow of the first Christmas tree to be illuminated by electric lights is seen through the tall windows of the second floor oval room beyond the center of the columned portico. A finely crafted gold-plated wreath of snowflakes, painted ice blue and white, frames the oval ornament.

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Inspired by the Harrison family’s Victorian Christmas tree, this 24 karat gold finished ornament interprets the first recorded tree to decorate the White House. The tree, laden with baubles and garland, is a canvas for all sorts of treats and toys. Beneath the tree are the gifts the Harrison grandchildren received: a toy train and a wooden sled await Benjamin, Mary’s rosy-cheeked doll sits on a tricycle, and nearby is Marthena’s much wished for doll house. A three foot high Santa Claus completes the season’s spectacle.

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The 2007 White House Christmas ornament honors the first administration of Grover Cleveland. The only U.S. president elected to two non-consecutive terms, he will be the only president to be featured on two White House Historical Association ornaments. Cleveland was also the only president to marry in the White House. This historic event is the focus of the 2007 ornament. The central illustration is a tinted reproduction of an engraving that originally appeared in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Magazine depicting the bride and groom taking their vows.

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President Arthur served just six months as Vice President to James A. Garfield who died in 1881 from wounds inflicted by an assassin’s bullet. The design of this ornament is inspired by the period motifs and rich décor of Arthur’s White House, which will be forever distinguished by the early work of Louis Comfort Tiffany. The North Portico is depicted in the center beneath a bald eagle. The two ovals flanking the center depict the dogwood blossoms that Tiffany used in a large screen of red, white, and blue glass, which stood in the Entrance Hall. The honeysuckle seen in the inner oval frame was adapted from the East Room high Victorian décor.

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His term of office, which began in March 1881, ended tragically in September of the same year when he died after being shot twice by an assassin. The ornament’s design is reflective of Garfield’s personal style and the Victorian period in which he served. It features a round ceramic stone showing a period illustration of the South Front of the White House surrounded by a wreath made of gold plated brass. The colors and motifs used to decorate the wreath reflect the décor of the President’s home, Lawnfield, in Mentor, Ohio. His monogram, “JAG,” is shown at the bottom of the wreath.

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President Hayes came to office after one of the most controversial elections in American history. Democrat Samuel J. Tilden of New York had beaten Hayes in the popular vote, but lost the Electoral College. This ornament recreates a snowy scene of a sleigh in winter on the North lawn of the White House. President Hayes loved the season and wintry weather invigorated him. He enjoyed taking his family and guests out on sleigh rides in hills around Washington. The oval dimensional ornament sets a nostalgic holiday mood within a 24-carat, gold finished brass frame. The reverse shimmers with white snowflakes against an enameled, royal blue sky.

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President Grant and his family brought a stable image of peace, domestic affection, and the good life to a nation shaken by war, assassination, and a presidential impeachment trial. The boy on the rocking horse is inspired by an authentic Victorian illustration of a child’s joy at Christmas. A 24-carat, gold finished brass wreath with enameled colors surrounds this hand-painted, cold-cast porcelain figure. Toys of the type available at Washington’s fancy goods stores during the time adorn the wreath and a steam locomotive, a symbol of this age of industrialization, swings below.

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This ornament celebrates the 100-year anniversary of Roosevelt’s restoration of the White House. It began on June 20, 1902, and just five months later was unveiled to Theodore Roosevelt, the popular presidential showman. It transformed the home and office of the president into the White House we recognize today. The crystal-like, acrylic core of the ornament recalls the sparkling Bohemian glass of the elegant East Room chandeliers. The brass metal decorative frame includes a holiday ribbon, leaves from the East Room’s Louis XVI style wall panels, and an eagle inspired by the carved mahogany pedestals of the tables made for the State Dining Room.

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President Johnson took office after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865. He often took carriage rides out into the surrounding countryside to relax with his family after a stressful day of politics at the White House. This ornament features a three dimensional replica of a carriage of the type used by the president. Beautifully crafted, it has a 24-carat gold finish and 8 enameled colors. An 1867 photograph of the south facade of the White House inspired this engraved style illustration. The ornament depicts President Johnson, his children and grandchildren, returning to the White House from an afternoon carriage ride.

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This ornament commemorates the 200th anniversary of the White House. It also celebrates the bicentennial of the federal government’s move from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. The design incorporates two highly detailed white sculptural relief's of the north and south elevations of the White House. Sandstone was used from the original Government Island quarry in Aquia, Virginia, that produced the sandstone for the exterior walls of the White House as was requested by George Washington. The sculptural relief of the north and south facades was created in a mold by mixing the stone, which was crushed to a fine powder, with resin to create a stone-like quality. It is displayed in a 24-carat gold-plated frame.

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No president has left a more enduring mark on the White House than Abraham Lincoln. He rose from the grassroots to guide his country through its greatest crisis, the Civil War, and under his leadership the broken Union was mended for all time. It is likely that had there been no Lincoln, there would be no White House today. This ornament features Lincoln’s portrait by George P. Healey. The Congress commissioned the posthumous portrait in oil in 1869. It hangs today over the fireplace in the State Dining Room of the White House. The frame shown in the ornament is adapted from a Civil War era ambrotype or tintype frame in the White House collection.

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