23 Facts About East Room

East Room is an event and reception room in the Executive Residence, which is a building of the White House complex, the home of the president of the United States.

The East Room is the largest room in the Executive Residence; it is used for dances, receptions, press conferences, ceremonies, concerts, and banquets.

The East Room was one of the last rooms to be finished and decorated, and it has undergone substantial redecoration over the past two centuries.

East Room was among the last rooms on the State Floor to be completed and used.

Jefferson had the East Room partitioned and the southern end used for a bedroom and office for Meriwether Lewis and Lewis Harvie .

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In 1814 and 1815, the rebuilt East Room received new door frames and inlaid mahogany doors that remain in the room today.

East Room was finally completed and decorated in 1829 by Andrew Jackson.

At some point prior to the inauguration of President William Henry Harrison in March 1841, the East Room acquired eight floor-to-ceiling mirrors with broad, heavily carved frames.

Patterson had the three large marble-topped tables removed from the East Room and placed in the family private quarters, and two of the four pier tables added to the Family Dining Room.

East Room was radically redecorated in 1873 during the administration of Ulysses S Grant.

Floor of the East Room was replaced with oak parquet, and trimmed in red Numidian marble from North Africa.

East Room's died in 1914, just two years into Wilson's first term.

The East Room was cleared of all furniture, and floor-to-ceiling X-shaped wooden braces erected in the room to stabilize it.

All of the paneling for the East Room was condemned as unfit for reuse, whether it was actually unusable or not, and replaced with new wood.

The East Room had a new parquet floor in a style taken from a design at the Palace of Fontainebleau, and silk curtains over the windows.

East Room's initially considered modified versions of ashtrays seen at the home of her friend, Bunny Mellon, but rejected this idea in favor of a unique design.

Much of the furniture in the East Room was removed by Boudin to make the room appear to be of a single historic era.

Mielziner crafted a stage which took up a full third of the East Room, and featured cream white-painted pilasters matching the room's architecture.

East Room flooring was replaced in 1978 during the Carter administration.

East Room is used for a wide range of events, which include the swearing-in of Cabinet members and justices of the Supreme Court, press conferences, the signing of legislation, receptions for foreign dignitaries.

East Room has served as the site of many important ceremonies, legislation and treaty signings, and other events.

East Room has appeared in a number of motion pictures about the president of the United States.

Life-size copy of the East Room was built at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.