The East Sitting Hall is located on the second floor of the White House , home of the president of the United States . First used as a reception room for guests of the president (the Lincoln Bedroom and the Queens' Bedroom were originally offices of the chief executive), it is now a family parlor with access to the east rooms on the second floor.
5-705: The room is entered from the second floor corridor on the west side of the room. A large fanlight window on the east side of the room faces the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden , the East Colonnade, the East Wing , and the U.S. Treasury . Two disguised doors allow access to a closet and a staircase up to the third floor. Charles Dickens wrote this about the room during the administration of John Tyler : [W]e went upstairs into another chamber, where were certain visitors, waiting for audiences. At sight of my conductor,
10-517: A black in plain clothes and yellow slippers who was gliding noiselessly about and whispering messages in the ears of the more impatient, made a sign of recognition, and glided off to announce him. We had previously looked into another chamber fitted all round with a great bare wooden desk or counter [probably the Anteroom, today's Treaty Room ], whereon lay piles of newspapers, to which sundry gentlemen were referring. But there were no such means of beguiling
15-411: Is a form of lunette window, often semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan . It is placed over another window or a doorway, and is sometimes hinged to a transom . The bars in the fixed glazed window spread out in the manner of a sunburst . It is also called a sunburst light . This architectural element –related article
20-539: The steps were replaced with a ramp through an arched corridor. Sister Parish , the first interior designer brought in to decorate during the Kennedy restoration , created the original concepts of the redesigned East Sitting Hall, which became a repository of furniture and memorabilia associated with the life of President James Monroe . 38°53′52″N 77°02′11″W / 38.89771°N 77.03639°W / 38.89771; -77.03639 Fanlight A fanlight
25-624: The time in this apartment, which was as unpromising and tiresome as any waiting-room.... Because the East Sitting Hall is situated above the East Room (which has a 22-foot ceiling), access to the East Sitting Hall was originally by way a small set of stairs from the Stair Landing . During the Truman reconstruction , the room was reduced by the addition of a lavatory and side stair to the third floor;
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