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Dwarfed by the massive steel beams
and supporting structures, a worker inspects the new elevator well in the
sub-basement, October 25, 1950. |
Many hands carefully hoist the F.G.
Coates portrait of Woodrow Wilson into position over the mantel in the Red
Room, March 20, 1952. |
View at the northeast corner of
the White House. Wooden forms and reinforced steelwork are being installed
preparatory to pouring the concrete walls of the Paint Shop, Electrician's
Shop and storage rooms, October 11, 1950. |
Men inspect a large steel support
beam to be installed on the second floor of the White House beneath the
oval study, August 16, 1950. |
Carpenters prepare wooden forms
for pouring the new concrete floor near the north entrance on the ground
floor of the White House, September 29, 1950. |
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Workmen install a section of ornamental
frieze to the northwest corner of the ceiling of the State Dining Room,
May 3, 1951. |
Plasterers work on a scaffold installing
the centerpiece and ornamental design of the plaster work on the ceiling
of the Family Dining Room, May 28, 1951. |
View of the new main ceremonial
stairway off the entrance hall of the White House. During the renovation,
the stairway was redesigned to ascend from the entrance hall rather than
from the cross hall as it had previously. |
South view in the Lobby with marble
columns set in place. Workmen are installing metal hangers and wire mesh
from the ceiling of the Main Corridor in preparation for plastering, June
21, 1951. |
To underscore the size of the massive
new ventilation system being installed above the tunnel in the new White
House basement, Rowe placed workmen inside the illuminated ductwork, July
19, 1951. |
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New "Westland Cream" marble from
Vermont is set in place along the walls of the stairway leading from the
main entrance hall to the ground floor, August 22, 1951. |
Carpenters lay the quartered white
oak flooring in a herringbone pattern in the State Dining Room, January
23, 1952. Rowe took advantage of an additional light, seen at the right
of the photograph, to provide fill light to illuminate the large space.
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Framed by the fan window at the
west end of the second floor corridor, a workman finishes the installation
of new trim, February 5, 1952. |
Employees of New York's B. Altman
Company install a new wall covering of blue damask with gold motif in the
Blue Room, March 14, 1952. |
Employees of O.R. Evans Company
install the refinished silver chandelier in the center of the State Dining
Room ceiling, March 18, 1952. |
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Library of Congress employees place
books on the shelves of the second floor corridor near the West Sitting
Room, July 24, 1952. The White House portrait of President Truman by Greta
Kempton hangs in the background. |
With the White House renovation
complete, workers have just finished planting new tulip beds around the
fountain on the north side of the mansion, March 25, 1952. |
