Executive Residence: Difference between revisions

East of the original Servants' Hall was the Housekeeper's Office, and then a room for general work. The Housekeeper's Office was turned into general workspace in 1809, while the bedroom became a general-use servants' room.{{sfn|Phillips-Schrock|2013|page=152}} All rooms east of the oval Servant's Hall were turned into staff bedrooms by 1825 (with the Housekeeper's Office taking up a portion of the Steward's Office).{{sfn|Phillips-Schrock|2013|page=161}} In 1837, President [[Martin Van Buren]] made the bedroom that would become the China Room into quarters for a stoker, whose job was to keep the White House furnace fueled 24 hours a day, seven days a week (with summers off).{{sfn|Seale|1992|page=84}} First Lady [[Edith Wilson]] turned this room into the China Room in 1917 to display the Executive Residence's growing collection of [[White House china]].{{sfn|Whitcomb|Whitcomb|2002|page=365}} Just east of the China Room, the 1902 renovation turned the staff bedroom into a sitting room known as the Social Room.{{sfn|Phillips-Schrock|2013|page=138}}{{sfn|Buckland|Culbert-Aguilar|1994|page=32}} It was briefly renamed the Billiard Room after the 1952 restoration,{{sfn|Phillips-Schrock|2013|page=174}} but became the Vermeil Room in 1957 after mining heiress Margaret Thompson Biddle bequeathed 1,575 pieces of [[vermeil]] silverware to the White House.{{sfn|Harris|2002|page=80}}{{sfn|Buckland|Culbert-Aguilar|1994|page=32}} It remained little changed as of 2010.{{sfn|Phillips-Schrock|2013|page=178}}