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THE ROOMS OF THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL COLLECTION8 ROOMS WITH NEW ROOMS ADDED EACH YEAR!
The White House Gift Shop Annual Ornament Collection Features Eight Individually Gift Boxed Rooms of the White House in 3-D with additional rooms added regularly to this unique and delightful collection! Each piece in the collection also includes an informative card that describes the history, design, and use of each of the White House rooms. The reverse side of each ornament in the collection is completely finished in 24KT gold with The White House on back and Made in the USA on one of the reverse side panel.
* Oval Office* Blue Room* State Dining Room* Red Room* Green Room* East Room * Yellow Oval Room * Lincoln Bedroom
The White House Rooms available include the Oval Office, the State
Dining Room, the Blue Room, the Green Room, the Red Room, the East
Room, Yellow Oval Room, and the Lincoln Bedroom with more rooms coming soon!
Accurate and 3-D Interior View of White House Rooms. The Oval Office: Architect Nathan C. Wyeth at the order of President William Howard Taft
designed the office in 1909. Named for its distinctive oval shape, the Oval
Office is part of the complex of offices that make up the West Wing of the
White House.
The Blue Room: Is located in the center of the State Floor of the White House. The President uses the Blue Room to receive many of his guests, from foreign heads of state to members of Congress. State Dining Room: The State Dining
Room, which now seats as many as 140 guests, was originally much smaller
and served at various times as a drawing room, office, and Cabinet
Room. Not until the Andrew Jackson administration was it called the
"State Dining Room," although previous Presidents had used it for formal
dinners.
The Red Room: The Red Room
traditionally has served as a parlor or sitting room; recent Presidents
have had small dinner parties here. During the Madison administration,
the room became Dolley Madison's
famous salon.
Yellow dominated
the color scheme until 1845, when President and Mrs. Polk furnished the
room with a dark crimson French Antique style suite and a ruby carpet.
Soon the "Washington Parlor" became the "Red Room."
The Green Room: James Hoban, the original architect of the President's House, intended
that the space now called the "Green Room" be used as a "Common Dining
Room." Charles McKim renovated the White House for President Theodore Roosevelt
in 1902. In the Green Room, the architect covered the walls in green
velvet and relocated a white marble mantle from the State Dining Room. Remarkable works of art grace the Green Room walls.
The East Room: Ascending from the Ground Floor Corridor, a marble stairway leads
the White House visitor to the state floor level. Off the landing to the
right is the East Room. The largest of the state rooms, it was designed
by James Hoban and George Washington to be a "Public Audience Room." The Yellow Oval Room: There
is another oval room above the Blue Room. This is called the Yellow Oval Room
and is often used for formal private receptions for important guests. The room
has three doors, which lead to the Central Hall, the Truman Balcony, and the
Living Room. Dolley Madison first decorated the room in yellow damask in 1809.
In 1851, Abigail Fillmore got an allocation from Congress for books to make the
room into the first White House library. The Harrison Family continued to use the
room as a library and family parlor and, in 1889, put the first White House
Christmas tree here. The Lincoln Bedroom: The Lincoln Bedroom is a
bedroom on the second floor of the White House, part of a suite of rooms that
includes the Lincoln Sitting Room and Lincoln Bath. Named for Abraham Lincoln
and used by him as an office. The room is best known as a guest room used by
presidents to reward friends and political supporters. When Abraham Lincoln was
president, the southeast corner suite was used as his personal office and
Cabinet room. During the Lincoln presidency, the walls were covered with Civil
War maps. These exceptional
collectibles and gifts are handcrafted in the USA and exclusively available only from the White House Gift Shop, Est. 1946. The fascinating pieces in the Rooms of the White House Collection are completely finished in 24KT gold on
premium brass with exquisitely baked enamels, and include an
informational history card for each piece in this exceptional new White
House Collection. Giannini design with hand-signed Certificate of Appreciation and Authenticity.
Look for many more White House Rooms to come in this uniquely new collection from the White House Gift Shop -- there are 132 rooms in the White House!
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