Blue Room after Tiffany Redecoration

This photograph of the Blue Room was taken around 1882, likely during the Chester A. Arthur administration. President Arthur commissioned Louis Comfort Tiffany to redecorate several rooms that year, including the Blue Room. Tiffany used a variety of robin's-egg blue on the walls and the design included a ceiling patterned with the Union shield, horizontal banding, and a silver embossed pattern as seen on the walls in this photograph. The Blue Room is located on the State Floor of the Executive Mansion and is famous for its oval shape, central location, and views of the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial through the South Portico windows.