10 Facts About Hoover desk

Hoover desk is a large block front desk, used by Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D Roosevelt in the Oval Office.

The desk was designed by J Stuart Clingman, and was built by the Robert W Irwin Company from American lumber and faced with Michigan-grown maple burl wood veneer.

The Hoover desk is one of only six desks to be used by a president in the Oval Office and is currently on display at the Franklin D Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York.

An article in the Grand Rapids Spectator published just after the desk was constructed describes it as taking design cues from both Queen Anne and Colonial New England furniture styles, while the Franklin D Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum describes the desk as being Art Deco in style.

The Hoover desk has three drawers, and a single flat top extender drawer, in each pedestal.

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The Hoover desk is completely made of American lumber, faced with Michigan-grown maple burl wood veneer, and finished in a rich French Walnut tone.

Ike Hoover desk covered it with a tarpaulin to protect it from the freezing water being sprayed on the burning building.

The Hoover desk was returned to the Oval Office, being placed in front of gray-green painted walls and grand green curtains with eagle-adorned cornices.

On Truman's first day as president he cleared off the Hoover desk, had it removed from the Oval Office, and replaced it with the Theodore Roosevelt desk.

Valerie Biden Owens, the sister of president Joe Biden and a member of the team tasked with redecorating the Oval Office for Biden's tenure, states in her memoir Growing Up Biden, that the Hoover desk almost moved back to the Oval Office for Biden's presidency.