Collection Dining in the Executive Mansion
A dinner at the White House has always had significance beyond the merely gastronomical. The elegance of the State Dining...
The Red Room in the Polk White House - Photo 3
- Artist
- David Ramsey
- Type
- Computer-Generated Image
- Credit
- David Ramsey/White House Historical Association
The Red Room in the Polk White House - Photo 3
This computer-generated view of the Red Room looking south into the Red Room from the Cross Hall would have been a presidential visitor's first impression of a formal State Room. The Washington portrait hung in this room from the Monroe to the Andrew Jackson Administration.
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