East Wing

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East Wing
East Wing of the White House from Southeast 1992

East Wing of the White House from Southeast 1992

Data
place Washington, DC
Construction year 1942
Coordinates 38 ° 53 '51.1 "  N , 77 ° 2' 8.3"  W Coordinates: 38 ° 53 '51.1 "  N , 77 ° 2' 8.3"  W.
East Wing of the White House from Northwest 1992

The East Wing is part of the White House Complex . The building has two floors. The east wing is east of the White House Executive Residence , the residence of the President of the United States . The east wing houses offices of the First Lady and her staff, as well as other offices of the White House Social Secretary , the White House Graphics and Calligraphy Office, and offices of the Postal Department. The east wing also houses the cinema and the visitors' entrance to the White House. The east wing is connected to the main part of the White House, the residence, via a colonnade . Guests for White House events such as banquets usually enter the building through the East Wing.

Groups of visitors also enter the White House through the East Wing. First they get to the wood-paneled lobby , where portraits of presidents and first ladies hang. From the lobby there is access through the Garden Room , which gives access to the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, and the east colonnade between the cinema and the garden to the Visitors Lobby , the last room in the East Wing in front of the residence. The residence is entered from there via the basement.

history

President Jefferson added pillar-supported terraces to the east and west sides of the White House during his tenure ; but there were still no wing extensions. Under Andrew Jackson , running water first appeared in 1834, pumped from a spring through pipes to the colonnades on the east side. At first the water was only used for washing, but the first bathrooms were soon installed in the colonnades on the east side. In 1866 the terrace was replaced by a greenhouse.

The first smaller east wing was built as an entrance hall for formal and non-formal visitors during the great Theodore Roosevelt renovation. It was especially used at large receptions, as these usually required a lot of space for carriages and cars and their drivers. The cloakroom offered plenty of space for visitors' hats and coats.

The now existing East Wing was built in 1942, mainly to cover up the construction of the bunker below, now known as the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC). During this time the cloakroom was converted into a cinema. Later the offices of communications, calligraphers and the social secretary were housed in the east wing. Eleanor Roosevelt was the first to employ a social secretary.

Rosalynn Carter was the first to move her personal office into the East Wing in 1977. She formally called it the " Office of the First Lady ". The office of the Social Secretary housed there today prepares, among other things, the invitations for events in the White House; for this there is the support of the Graphics and Calligraphy Office, which, for example, creates the invitations or menus by hand.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview of the White House . Retrieved March 22, 2014.
  2. ^ Second floor of the East Wing . Retrieved March 22, 2014.
  3. ^ A b c d e East Wing of the White House . The White House Museum. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
  4. ↑ First floor of the east wing . Retrieved March 22, 2014.
  5. ^ Theodore Roosevelt Renovation: 1902 . The White House Museum. Retrieved June 7, 2009.

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