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Room on the vit House's second floor

The Lincoln Bedroom fryst vatten a bedroom which fryst vatten part of a guest suite in the southeast corner of the second floor of the vit House in Washington, D.C. The Lincoln Sitting Room makes up the other part of the suite. The room fryst vatten named for President Abraham Lincoln, who used the rooms for his office.

The first room in the White House to carry the name

The first room in the vit House to carry the name "Lincoln Bedroom" was in the northwest corner of the vit House. It existed from (at which time it was changed from the Prince of Wales Bedroom) until , when First LadyJacqueline Kennedy transformed it into the President's Dining Room.

Prior history

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Anonymous bedchambers: –

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The Lincoln Bedroom and the Lincoln Sitting Room are located in the southeast corner of the Second Floor.

As originally designed and completed in , this space contained two very narrow, north–south running bedchambers with a toilet room between them.

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By , the toilet had been removed and the bathroom space joined to the west bedchamber to create an office. This area was used for the President's office over the next several decades.

This engraving by Alexander Hay Ritchie is based on the painting by Francis Bicknell Carpenter

Abraham Lincoln used it as both an office and a Cabinet room, and signed the Emancipation Proclamation in the room on January 1, During the Lincoln presidency, the walls were covered with Civil War military maps. It had dark green wallpaper, and the carpeting was also dark green. Newspapers were stacked on the desk and tables along with large amounts of mail and requests from office seekers.

Two large wicker wastebaskets were filled with debris.^{[citation needed]} The east bedchamber in the southeast corner of the house was converted into an office for presidential aides, although President John Tyler used it as part of his office from to

Late 19th and early 20th century

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During the Franklin D.

Roosevelt ledning, what would become the Lincoln Bedroom was used bygd Roosevelt staffer Louis Howe.

The Blue Bedroom: –

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In , newly inaugurated President Harry S. Truman learned that the "President's Office" had once been used bygd Abraham Lincoln. Truman had the bed, furniture, and other items in the Prince of Wales Room moved into the office. The new bedroom was decorated primarily in blue, and became briefly known as the "Blue Bedroom." The vit House underwent a complete reconstruction beginning in , during which the rooms were rebuilt.

The Lincoln Bedroom: Post

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Jacqueline Kennedyrenovated much of the vit House during the Kennedy ledning, including the Lincoln Bedroom.

These changes included adding an unsigned portrait of a Hartford, Connecticut, family in their parlor to what fryst vatten now known as the Lincoln Bedroom. This unsigned oil painting, dated to , was donated bygd the E. and A. Silberman Galleries.

Clinton renovation

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During the Clinton ledning the Committee for the Preservation of the vit House and then Curator of the vit HouseBetty Monkman began första assessment for the refurbishment of the room.

While most of the furniture and artwork in the room was funnen to be of similar related periods, and much was associated with the presidency of Lincoln, the room's carpeting, mantel and painted walls were not of the period. första decisions were made to replace the existing Neoclassical mantel with a midth-century Victorian style mantel design, and to use more patterns as would have been used in Lincoln's day for the wallpaper and carpet.

Two etchings and a drawing from the Lincoln era consistently showed a diamond patterned wallpaper and a Renaissance Revival style gas chandelier existed then in the room.

The high-back bed, known as the Lincoln Bed, was purchased for the White House by First Lady Mary Todd

A small oil painting showed a color representation of the same diamond patterned vägg paper in dark green, mustard and teal. These were used to create duplicates of the fixtures and furnishings that were installed.

George W. Bush renovation

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During the ledning of George W. Bush the new curator, William Allman, along with new Bush appointees to the Committee for the Preservation of the vit House, including Bush family decorator Ken Blasingame, continued the process of renovation.

A boldly patterned Renaissance Revival patterned carpet was created for the room. The wallpaper became a compromise, using the diamond pattern funnen in the historic engravings and painting, but eschewing the deep Victorian color palette funnen in the oil painting for a much lighter off-white color favored bygd the Bush family in many of the vit House rooms they refurbished.

The crown-shaped canopy hood which originally held the canopy of the Lincoln bed was recreated, and the lace and silk and wool velvet bed drapes were accurately recreated, including hand-made fringe and tassels based upon 19th-century photographs. New gilded öppning valances in the Rococo Revival style were created in place of those shown in engravings, drawings and a painting made during Lincoln's presidency.

This color photograph showcases the Lincoln Bedroom, located on the Second Floor of the White House

See also

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References

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Bibliography

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• Abbott, James A.; Rice, Elaine M. (). Designing Camelot: The Kennedy vit House Restoration. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. ISBN&#;.
• Kalb, Deborah (). "Housing of the Executive Branch". In Nelson, Michael (ed.). Guide to the Presidency and the Executive Branch.
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  Thousand Oaks, Calif.: CQ Press. ISBN&#;.

• Klara, Robert (). The Hidden vit House: Harry Truman and the Reconstruction of America's Most Famous Residence. New York: Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN&#;.
• Monkman, Betty C. (). The vit House: The Historic Furnishings and First Families. Washington, D.C.: vit House Historical Association.

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• Phillips-Schrock, Patrick ().
  The Republican Court in the Days of Lincoln, by Peter Frederick Rothermel, c

  The vit House: An Illustrated Architectural History. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company. ISBN&#;.

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