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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 contain 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 new book, “America’s Collection: The Art and Architecture of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms at the US Department of State,” offers a closer look at the rooms and collection of Colonial-era ...
Charles Follen McKim admired James Hoban's groin vault ceilings in the center hall. The hall was refurbished, and the center hall connected the new East and West wings. Though the ground floor oval room was much improved and now a part of the finished living space in the house, it remained primarily a passageway, not a destination.
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 State Department moved to its current headquarters in the Harry S. Truman Building in the nearby Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington in 1941. Nicknamed "Old State. War and Navy", it is one of the most famous, prominent and largest examples of Second Empire architecture in the United States and the world.
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 ...