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White House Historical Association – an official virtual museum of the White House, with floor plans, photographs, and extensive descriptions of both historical and current furnishings. 38°53′52″N 77°02′11″W / 38.89778°N 77.03639°W / 38.89778; -77
English: Floor plan of White House State Floor, which features the State Dining Room, East Room, Red Room, Blue Room, Green Room, Cross Hall, Entrance Hall, Grand Staircase, Family Dining Room, Chief Usher's office, and South Portico
The principal story plan for the White House by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1807. The main entrance is located on the north façade under a porte cochere with Ionic columns. [32] The ground floor is hidden by a raised carriage ramp and parapet. The central three bays are situated behind a prostyle portico that was added c. 1830.
English: Floor plan of White House Second floor, which features the Center Hall, East Sitting Hall, Lincoln Bedroom, Lincoln Sitting Room, President's Dining Room, Queens' Bedroom, Queens' Sitting Room, Treaty Room, Truman Balcony, West Sitting Hall, and Yellow Oval Room
The West Wing ground floor is also the site of a small restaurant operated by the Presidential Food Service and staffed by Naval culinary specialists and called the White House Mess. [14] [15] It is located underneath the Oval Office, and was established by President Truman on June 11, 1951. [16]
Blair House, a 119-room complex made up of four connected townhouses that quietly face the White House on Pennsylvania Ave, has become the traditional accommodations for the President-elect the ...
The Oval Office has become associated in Americans' minds with the presidency itself through memorable images, such as a young John F. Kennedy, Jr. peering through the front panel of his father's desk, President Richard Nixon speaking by telephone with the Apollo 11 astronauts during their moonwalk, and Amy Carter bringing her Siamese cat Misty Malarky Ying Yang to brighten her father ...
The Trump administration's plan to arrest and deport as many undocumented immigrants as possible quickly became a numbers game as White House officials set quotas and government press officers ...