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McKim, Mead, and White renovation of the Entrance Hall in 1924 during the administration of Calvin Coolidge. An 1882 photograph shows the Tiffany screen, Brumidi frescos, and encaustic tile floor. The Entrance Hall (also called the Grand Foyer) is the primary and formal entrance to the White House, the official residence of the president of the ...
Federal Hall is a memorial and historic site at 26 Wall Street in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City.The current Greek Revival–style building, completed in 1842 as the Custom House, is owned by the United States federal government and operated by the National Park Service as a national memorial called the Federal Hall National Memorial.
Federal Hill mansion, built in 1795, at My Old Kentucky Home State Park in Bardstown, Kentucky Old Town Hall in Salem, Massachusetts, built in 1816–17 Hamilton Hall, built in 1805 by Samuel McIntire in Salem, Massachusetts An 1827 illustration by Alexander Jackson Davis of Massachusetts State House in Boston, built in 1798 South Carolina ...
By Steele Marcoux Federal home design style comes with another confusing name. In design, the word "federal" simply indicates the time period (1780–1820) when the style, known among architecture ...
Towards improving design of federal buildings in the United States, "the committee recommended architecture that would convey the 'dignity, enterprise, vigor, and stability of the American Government.' Designers and officials were encouraged to pay special attention to site selection and layout, including landscape development." [1]
Emancipation Hall is the main hall of the CVC and measures in at 20,000 square feet (1,900 m 2). [12] It was originally designated the Great Hall , but this was changed to Emancipation Hall when a bill cosponsored by Congressman Zach Wamp and Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. was passed by Congress and signed by President George W. Bush in January 2008.
Constructed in 1937 in a French Norman style, the three-bedroom house on Shenley Drive has many arches and built-in features in addition to the tower-like entrance.
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. President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev in the White House Diplomatic Reception Room