The Restoration of the White House 
in the fine old prints and pictures of the 
White House which are extant. 
d'he pavilion on the east end is a portico 
with a semicircular sweep of carriage-way and 
sidewalk by which people will enter from 
Executive Avenue for public receptions, 
thence passing through a long corridor lighted 
by semicircular windows, and lined on either 
hand with stalls of boxes where the hats and 
coats will be checked. This corridor opens 
into a square room the entire width of the 
terrace before entering the basement of the 
supplied with toilet facilities. Idle corridor 
is painted in buff, and for the present, at 
least, its walls are adorned with portraits of 
White House ladies, among which is Char- 
tran’s portrait of Mrs. Roosevelt. 
A broad sandstone stairway leads up on 
the right to a landing which opens through 
tall double doors into the E,ast Room and 
the Entrance Hall. This last door being 
closed, the crowd flows into the great F.ast 
Room without invading any other part of the 
house. The old plan of the house remains 
THE WHITE HOUSE FROM THE EAST 
house. It is closed on the garden side with 
glass between columns, giving a glimpse of 
the grounds, and it has doors to the north and 
east into the colonnade. 
Both terraces are well lighted by electric 
lamps set along the parapets on standards 
which, by the way, appear rather slender for 
good effect. These arrangements for the ad¬ 
mission of the public to crowded popular 
functions at the White blouse are an admira¬ 
ble improvement in the plan. Passing thus 
into the basement, the crowd finds itself in 
a wide vaulted corridor paved with sand¬ 
stone. On either hand are rooms for the 
ushers and servants, smoking-rooms for men 
and dressing-rooms for women, each well 
practically unchanged, and this staircase is in 
the same place as the old one, only it is now 
given the full width between the walls, and 
the marble stair from the corridor to the 
upper floor forms its ceiling. 
The E',ast Room, in its new bravery, is a 
noble and spacious place, forty feet wide, 
eighty feet in width and twenty-two in height. 
There are three tall windows in each of the 
ends, and five, with a fine triple window in 
the middle, on the east wall. Five mahogany 
doors are opposite, recessed deeply in the 
sturdy walls, the middle one wide and high, 
a stately entrance from the main corridor. 
Above a low base of Numidian marble the 
walls are panelled in wood to the ceiling. 
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