Frances Folsom Cleveland was a celebrity first lady unlike almost any before her, and the mass production of her image to sell a variety of goods by the American Consumer industry in the mid1880s angered both her and her husband, president Grover Cleveland. To help us understand the Frances Cleveland sensation sweeping the country, we begin our story inside 1600 pennsylvania avenue as a curious nation waited for the details of a 49yearold bachelor president marrying his 21yearold bride inside the white house for the first and only time in our countrys history, launching Frances Cleveland into instant celebrity. Youre standing in the cross hall of the modern white house. Its the same basic layout as it would have been on june 2, 1886, when president Grover Cleveland and his bridetobe, Frances Folsom, came down what was then the large staircase to the family quarters at the west end of this corridor. They would have proceeded down the hallway. The music started up at the east side behind
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