Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The club includes dining rooms, guest rooms, meeting rooms, squash facilities, and a gym. The building is a high-rise building, at least in Washington, D.C. The building rises 12 floors and 157 feet (48 m) in height. [ 9 ]
Roger Pratt is the architect credited with pioneering the removal of servants from dining in the great hall. [2] In 1650 at Coleshill House Pratt designed the first purpose-built servants' hall in the basement. By the end of the century, the arrangement was common; the only servants left in the hall were those waiting for a summons.
The New Executive Office Building, viewed from across 17th Street NW. The New Executive Office Building shown in an aerial photograph of the White House Complex and surrounding area. The NEOB is the brick building in the extreme upper left-hand corner of the photo. The White House is in the center.
Doors were cut through the west wall in 1877. The State Dining Room underwent a major expansion and renovation in 1902, transforming it from a Victorian dining room into a "baronial" dining hall of the early 19th century—complete with stuffed animal heads on the walls and dark oak panelling. The room stayed in this form until the White House ...
Komi was located at 1509 17th St. NW in Washington, D.C. [1] It opened in 2003, serving wood-fired pizzas and an à la carte menu of soups, salads, and entrees for lunch and dinner. [ 2 ] In the winter of 2006, Chef Monis shut down the restaurant for two weeks, removing a majority of the tables and re-opening with a prix-fixe multi-course menu ...
On the former site of the John Peter Van Ness Mansion.The cornerstone was laid on May 11, 1908, by Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, and Andrew Carnegie [2] (who largely financed the building's construction), and the building was dedicated on April 26, 1910.
The first executive offices were constructed between 1799 and 1820 on the former site of the Washington Jockey Club, flanking the White House. [5] In 1869, following the Civil War, Congress appointed a commission to select a site and submit plan and cost estimates for a new State Department Building, with possible arrangements to house the War and Navy departments.
A corporate office's cafeteria in Bengaluru, India, December 2003.. A cafeteria, sometimes called a canteen outside the U.S., is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether in a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a school dining location is also referred to as a dining hall or lunchroom (in ...