This area of the residence has served as a base for the first lady, as an entrance for social events and as an emergency bunker.
He east wing of the white housewhich will be torn down this weekend to make way for the president’s new ballroom Donald Trumphas been a formal entrance, the site of social events and a base for the first lady since the time of Eleanor Roosevelt.
This two-story wing, whose demolition has sparked outrage and alarmed historians and architects, was built under the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt in 1902.
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