![]() ![]() ![]() The room was papered in yellow with gilded stars, and a suite of crimson furniture. The earliest written description of the room dates to the John Adams administration, and describes the room as a ladies drawing room. Kennedy, as decorated by Sister Parish and Stéphane Boudin The Yellow Oval Room during the administration of President John F. Later presidents reserved the room as a parlor for formal receptions and used the Treaty Room, just to the east, as a private study instead. ![]() Altman and Company, New York with reproduction traditional furniture. Following the Truman reconstruction the room was decorated by B. Harry Truman continued to use the room as a study and opened access to a new balcony he added, called the " Truman Balcony," to the South Portico in 1948. The Secret Service moved his desk away from the windows as a security precaution. Roosevelt converted the room into his study, and it was in this room on December 7, 1941, that he learned of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Harrisons continued to use the room as a library and family parlor and, in 1889, put the first White House Christmas tree here.įranklin D. In 1851, Abigail Fillmore got an allocation from Congress for books to make the room into the first White House Library. On January 1, 1801, and before it was even complete, John Adams held the first presidential reception in this room, known then only as "the upstairs oval parlor." Dolley Madison first decorated the room in yellow damask in 1809. ![]()
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