The Oval Office

The weblog for the White House Museum at whitehousemuseum.org.

August 6, 2006

Residence expansion

I've posted dozens of new photos in the past couple of days and created a number of new pages to flesh out the third floor of the Residence and the pre-Truman second floor. It took some noodling to figure out which room was which, since the Truman Library archives don't have them clearly labeled, and I may have made some mistakes. I've learned that I can't always even trust the Library of Congress on rooms or dates, so it's a pretty tricky puzzle. It actually helps a lot to draw a schematic of the room from the photo, with the doors and windows and fireplace, and then to try to fit it to the floor plan just like a puzzle piece. But even then, some rooms, like the Master Dressing Room and the Queen's Sitting Room, have identical layouts.

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