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The White House has historically used large tents on the South Lawn for major events, but this is not a routine practice for hosting overnight guests; tents have been a temporary solution for state di...
A new, privately funded White House State Ballroom — described by the administration as a 90,000‑square‑foot expansion including a large formal ballroom intended to replace the East Wing — is being bu...
The available briefings and news items present conflicting claims about the White House ballroom’s current and planned dimensions: multiple reports describe a proposed while others say the ballroom it...
The West Wing of the White House was originally built to provide , a role that expanded significantly under Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s when the wing was enlarged and the Oval Office moved to i...
State dinners at the White House are highly choreographed ceremonial events centered on receiving a visiting head of state, with , while the Department of State and other agencies coordinate diplomati...
The West Wing expansions and renovations reshaped the White House from a series of separate greenhouse and auxiliary structures into the modern executive office complex and altered the location and sc...
The available reporting and historical accounts show that the White House contains — notably a World War II–era bomb shelter under the East Wing and a modern Presidential Emergency Operations Center —...
Available reporting shows the White House tennis court on the South Lawn was adapted so it also could be used as a basketball court in 2009 during the Obama presidency; the work was a modest conversio...
The core fact pattern is straightforward: reporting about White House renovations shows for either administration, and the projects under Presidents Obama and Trump differed sharply in scope, funding ...
The core claim is that the White House East Wing was demolished to make way for a new, privately funded, roughly $300 million — a 90,000-square-foot addition intended to host large formal events — a m...
The available public reporting does not establish a single cost for a White House state dinner; published figures show a wide historical range and recent reporting focuses on a newly proposed, private...
The White House does not contain fanciful secret passageways like those imagined in popular fiction; independent historical analyses and recent reporting instead identify a series of , most notably th...
The new White House ballroom project will be built within and by replacing parts of the , not the historic Rose Garden; reporting and preservation notices indicate demolition and modernization of the ...
The West Wing has been repeatedly renovated and expanded since its 1902 origins, with major works under Presidents Taft, Hoover, and Roosevelt that added offices, a second floor and subterranean space...
The White House is undertaking construction of a large new ballroom located in or adjacent to the East Wing, a project announced in July 2025 and actively advancing with demolition having begun in Oct...
The president exercises unusually broad practical control over changes to the White House because the residence and workplace are managed within the executive branch and long-standing protocols give t...
The most consistent factual finding across available reporting is that the current White House renovation centers on creating a new large state ballroom in the East Wing with , and that funding has be...
The White House’s traditional largest interior event space is the East Room, which holds about 200 people . Since July 2025 the White House has announced construction of a new “White House State Ballr...
The identities of primary firms tied to the White House Ballroom project are reported consistently: McCrery Architects (initial lead architect), Clark Construction (lead builder), and AECOM (engineer)...
The East Wing historically sat on the east side of the Executive Residence and functioned as the White House’s public and ceremonial flank—housing the first lady’s offices, the family theater, tour en...