The Red Room is one of three state parlors on the State Floor in the White House, the Washington D.C. home of the president of the United States. The room has served as a parlor and music room, and recent presidents have held small dinner parties in it. It has been traditionally decorated in shades of red. The room is approximately 28 by 22.5 feet. It has six doors, which open into the Cross Hall, Blue Room, South Portico, and State Dining Room.
A stereograph view of the Red Room looking northwest, during the administration of Ulysses S. Grant. The center table, and "ladies' chairs" (one near the north door) were built by the Herter Brothers.
The original site plan and principal story plan for the White House, designed by the second U.S. Architect of the Capitol Benjamin Latrobe in 1807.
The Red Room during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt.
President Truman at the White House receiving a musical clock and two candelabra, a gift for the renovated White House presented by Henri Bonnet, the French Ambassador to the United States, in behalf of French President Vincent Auriol.
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., it has served as the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800 when the national capital was moved from Philadelphia. The term "White House" is often used as a figure of speech for the president and his advisers.
Top: the Executive Residence's northern facade with a columned portico facing the North Lawn and Lafayette Square Bottom: the Executive Residence's southern facade with a semi-circular portico facing the South Lawn and The Ellipse
Aerial view of the White House complex, including Pennsylvania Avenue (closed to traffic) in the foreground, the Executive Residence and North Portico (center), the East Wing (left), and the West Wing and the Oval Office at its southeast corner.
The first presidential mansion, Samuel Osgood House in Manhattan, occupied by Washington from April 1789 – February 1790
The second presidential mansion, Alexander Macomb House, in Manhattan, occupied by Washington from February–August 1790
