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===Library and ancillary spaces=== | ===Library and ancillary spaces=== | ||
{{Main|White House Library}} | {{Main|White House Library}} | ||
The storeroom in the northeast corner of the ground floor remained in use as storage space only until 1809, when it became a laundry.{{sfn|Phillips-Schrock|2013|page=152}} In 1902, President | The storeroom in the northeast corner of the ground floor remained in use as storage space only until 1809, when it became a laundry.{{sfn|Phillips-Schrock|2013|page=152}} In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt hired the architectural firm of [[McKim, Mead & White]] to renovate the White House. They turned the room into a "gentleman's anteroom".{{sfn|Harris|2002|pages=80–81}} This room became the [[White House Library]] in 1935.{{sfn|Thacker-Estrada|2004|page=68}} First Lady [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis|Jacqueline Kennedy]] radically transformed the room in 1961.{{sfn|Thacker-Estrada|2004|page=68}} Kennedy consulted initially with a group consisting of members of the [[United States Commission of Fine Arts]], designers from the [[American Society of Interior Designers|American Institute of Interior Designers]] (AIID), and historians. The AIID agreed to take on the job of refurbishing the room,{{sfn|Harris|2002|page=80}} and Kennedy worked with decorator Jeanette Becker Lenygon of the AIID on the project. Lenygon designed an early American library room in the [[Federal architecture|Federal style]].{{sfn|Thacker-Estrada|2004|page=68}} Except for minor decorative changes, the White House Library remains the same as of 2010.{{sfn|Phillips-Schrock|2013|page=178}} | ||
The toilet and laundry room west of the kitchen became general-use work areas by 1809,{{sfn|Phillips-Schrock|2013|page=152}} and a pantry, small kitchen, and cook's office by 1825.{{sfn|Phillips-Schrock|2013|page=161}} By 1946, these had become general workrooms, with a narrow, winding staircase inserted into the room closest to the former kitchen.{{sfn|Phillips-Schrock|2013|page=174}} The 1952 renovation turned the winding staircase into a steep, straight stairs and added an elevator in this space.{{sfn|Phillips-Schrock|2013|page=174}} As of 2010, a pantry-sized refrigerator also occupied a portion of this space.{{sfn|Phillips-Schrock|2013|page=178}} | The toilet and laundry room west of the kitchen became general-use work areas by 1809,{{sfn|Phillips-Schrock|2013|page=152}} and a pantry, small kitchen, and cook's office by 1825.{{sfn|Phillips-Schrock|2013|page=161}} By 1946, these had become general workrooms, with a narrow, winding staircase inserted into the room closest to the former kitchen.{{sfn|Phillips-Schrock|2013|page=174}} The 1952 renovation turned the winding staircase into a steep, straight stairs and added an elevator in this space.{{sfn|Phillips-Schrock|2013|page=174}} As of 2010, a pantry-sized refrigerator also occupied a portion of this space.{{sfn|Phillips-Schrock|2013|page=178}} | ||