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[[File:The President's office by Detroit Photographic Company.jpg|thumb|Theodore Roosevelt Executive Office and Cabinet Room, {{circa}} 1904]] | [[File:The President's office by Detroit Photographic Company.jpg|thumb|Theodore Roosevelt Executive Office and Cabinet Room, {{circa}} 1904]] | ||
The [[West Wing]] was the idea of President | The [[West Wing]] was the idea of President Theodore Roosevelt, brought about by his wife's opinion that the second floor of the White House, then shared between bedrooms and offices, should be solely a domestic space. Completed in 1902, the one-story Executive Office Building was intended to be a temporary structure, for use until a permanent building was erected there or elsewhere.<ref>An architect, [[Daniel Burnham]], recommended that it be erected on the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue, in [[Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.|Lafayette Park]], to ensure that it would remain a temporary building. Seale, ''The President's House'', p. 664.</ref> Sitting the building west of the White House allowed the removal of a vast, dilapidated set of pre–[[American Civil War|Civil War]] greenhouses, which had been erected by President [[James Buchanan]].<ref>The greenhouses were disassembled and moved.</ref> | ||
Roosevelt moved the offices of the [[executive branch]] into the newly constructed wing in 1902. His workspace was a two-room suite of Executive Office and Cabinet Room, occupying the eastern third of the building. Its furniture, including the [[Theodore Roosevelt desk|president's desk]], was designed by architect [[Charles Follen McKim]], and executed by [[A. H. Davenport and Company]], both of Boston.<ref>William Allman, White House Curator, "Oval Office Tour, December 1, 2008," [[C-SPAN]] documentary, 14:45.</ref> Now much altered, the 1902 Executive Office survives as the Roosevelt Room, a windowless interior meeting room situated diagonally from the Oval Office. | Roosevelt moved the offices of the [[executive branch]] into the newly constructed wing in 1902. His workspace was a two-room suite of Executive Office and Cabinet Room, occupying the eastern third of the building. Its furniture, including the [[Theodore Roosevelt desk|president's desk]], was designed by architect [[Charles Follen McKim]], and executed by [[A. H. Davenport and Company]], both of Boston.<ref>William Allman, White House Curator, "Oval Office Tour, December 1, 2008," [[C-SPAN]] documentary, 14:45.</ref> Now much altered, the 1902 Executive Office survives as the Roosevelt Room, a windowless interior meeting room situated diagonally from the Oval Office. | ||