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The Harry S Truman Building is the headquarters of the United States Department of State. It is located in Washington, D.C. , and houses the office of the United States secretary of state . [ 3 ]
Located on the seventh and eighth floors of the Harry S Truman Building in Washington, D.C., the diplomatic reception rooms include one of the nation’s foremost museum collections of American fine and decorative arts. Architect Edward Vason Jones designed several of the rooms between 1965 and 1980.
A split beam supporting the second floor under Margaret Truman's Sitting Room, 1949. In June 1948, a leg of Margaret Truman's piano crashed through the floor in her second floor sitting room and through the ceiling of the Family Dining Room below. Investigators found the floor boards had rotted, the main floor beam was split completely through ...
The Truman Balcony on the second floor of the White House The portico before construction of the balcony (photo c. 1910–1935) The Truman Balcony is the second-floor balcony of the Executive Residence of the White House, which overlooks the South Lawn. It was completed in March 1948, during the presidency of Harry S. Truman.
The White House bowling alley in 2019, displaying the logo of Melania Trump's Be Best campaign The basement of the White House , the Washington, D.C. , residence and workplace of the president of the United States , is located under the North Portico and includes the White House carpenters' shop, engineers' shop, bowling alley, flower shop ...
In 1945, newly inaugurated President Harry S. Truman learned that the "President's Office" had once been used by Abraham Lincoln. Truman had the bed, furniture, and other items in the Prince of Wales Room moved into the office. The new bedroom was decorated primarily in blue, and became briefly known as the "Blue Bedroom."
The term “interior decoration” was used for the first time in 1904. Years later, in the 1930s, the similar term “interior designer” was coined by an “Interior Design and Decoration ...
The White House was completely gutted and rebuilt from 1950 to 1952 during the Harry S. Truman administration. When it came time to redecorate the Blue Room, Truman's designers selected for wall coverings a deep blue silk , which contained a pattern of gold urns draped with flowers. [ 9 ]