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Overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue, this hall serves as a grand foyer for the official reception rooms on the State Floor. The grand staircase leads from the State Floor to the Second Floor and is used primarily for ceremonial occasions. (Photo courtesy: whitehouse.gov)
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Cross Hall
Behind the Entrance Hall is this central corridor that extends between the East Room and the State Dining Room. (Photo courtesy: whitehouse.gov)
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East Room
The largest room in the house, it is traditionally used for large gatherings, such as press conferences, bill-signing ceremonies, after-dinner entertaining, concerts, weddings, funerals, and award presentations. (Photo courtesy: whitehouse.gov)
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Green Room
The Green Room has served as a parlor for teas and receptions. Here, Frances Cleveland held her first White House reception, and Edith Roosevelt received guests before the Friday musicales and concerts held in the adjoining East Room. (Photo courtesy: whitehouse.gov)
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Blue Room
Although special meetings, luncheons, and dinners have been held in the room, it continues to be used for the purpose first intended - the formal reception room of the White House. (Photo courtesy: whitehouse.gov)
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Red Room
Theodore Roosevelt used the Red Room as a "smoking room" where male guests adjourned after dinner for cigars and brandy. The room continues to be used today as a parlor for guests after dinner and during receptions. (Photo courtesy: whitehouse.gov)
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State Dining Room
Since 1809 this room has served as the State Dining Room, with the smaller Family Dining Room to its north. Today, using circular tables, as many as 140 guests can dine in the room for formal events. (Photo courtesy: whitehouse.gov)
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Ground Floor Corridor
Until 1902, the Ground Floor in the White House served as utilitarian space used by servants. Mrs Roosevelt decided to hang portraits of first ladies in this space, inaugurating a tradition that has been retained to the present. (Photo courtesy: whitehouse.gov)
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Library
Originally compiled in 1961 and updated in 2005, the official White House Library contains 2,700 works of American life and thought. In the modern era, the room has been a favorite for media tapings. (Photo courtesy: whitehouse.gov)
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Vermeil Room
The room takes its name from the large collection of vermeil (gilded silver) received by the White House in 1958 as a bequest of Margaret Thompson Biddle, selections of which have been on display in this room ever since. (Photo courtesy: whitehouse.gov)
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China Room
Since 1917, the Ground Floor room known as the China Room has been used as an exhibition space for examples of ceramics, glass, and silver used in the White House or owned by the first families. (Photo courtesy: whitehouse.gov)
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East Garden Room
This room is the intersection between the Residence and the East Wing. Coming down the colonnade, guests first see an enormous bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln by Gutzon Borglum in a niche in the west wall. Large portraits of four former presidents hang on the other two walls. (Photo courtesy: whitehouse.gov)
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