While today, people may look at celebrities, Pinterest or TikTok for over the top inspiration for Christmas decorations, for decades, people often looked to the White House to guide how their home might look for the holidays.
It was in 1889 that then President Benjamin Harrison first included a Christmas tree in the White House's winter decorations, though it wasn't until 1894, under Grover Cleveland's administration, that the decorations featured Christmas lights.
Moreover, it wasn't until Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and her seemingly immortal knack for setting trends, that the Christmas decorations at the White House took a far more glamorous turn, when the tradition of decorating in Christmas themes began, starting with her beloved Nutcracker Suite ornaments in 1961.
Take a look below at some of the White House's most magical — and maybe even notorious — decorations of Christmas' past, from among the very first, to Jackie's, to some of the most recent.
Pictured above is President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Christmas tree in the executive mansion's East Room during the second of his 12 years in office. He also had another Christmas tree on the second floor of the White House.
During her husband John F. Kennedy's first year in office, Jackie erected a massive Nutcracker-themed tree in the Blue Room of the White House, where the White House themed Christmas tree has been placed for almost every year since.
True to the colorful 1960s, Lady Bird Johnson, pictured above on the eve of her 55th birthday, decorated 1967's tree with a flower power motif.
Rosalynn Carter, pictured above with husband Jimmy Carter and their daughter Amy Carter, had her tree decorated with ornaments made by members of The Arc of the United States, a disability rights organization advocating for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
In typical 1980s fashion, for Christmas 1985, Nancy Reagan gave a smooch to Dallas star Larry Hagman, who played the legendary J.R. Ewing.
Barbara Bush's 1991 Christmas tree was decorated with 1,200 needlepoint ornaments, including of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy.