Grace Lincoln Temple

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Grace Lincoln Temple (1865–1953), was an American interior designer and one of the first women to decorate a public U.S. building. Temple designed the Smithsonian Institution rotunda and its first Children's Room in 1901, in addition to a variety of federal World's Fair buildings, the Cosmos Club, several presidential inaugurations, and the White House East Room under the Cleveland administration. Temple was an expert in Colonial wallpaper design and ran a successful decorating practice in Washington, D.C. for fifty years.

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