White House basement - wikipedia White House basement Digging the basement under North Portico in 1950 during White House Truman reconstruction. The basement of the White House, the Washington, D.C. residence and workplace of the President of the United States, is located under the North Portico and includes the White House carpenters ' shop, engineers ' shop, flower shop, and dentist office, among other areas. The White House Situation Room is located in the basement beneath the West Wing. Contents 1 History 2 References 3 Further reading 4 External links History During World War II, a bomb shelter was constructed under the East Wing, later converted into the Presidential Emergency Operations Center. The sub-basement was added during the reconstruction of the White House under Harry S. Truman. It contains storage space, the laundry, elevator control machinery, the water softener, and incinerator, as well as dressing rooms for White House performers. Dwight Eisenhower made the first White House television broadcast from a special room in the basement in 1953, though the `` broadcast room '' was soon divided for other purposes. A bowling alley was added by Richard Nixon in 1969. There had previously been a bowling alley in the West Wing, built for President Truman in 1947, which had been moved to the Old Executive Office Building in 1955. After the Recording Industry Association of America suggested that the White House Library should be expanded to include sound recordings, that trade group donated over 2200 LPs during the Nixon and Carter administrations ; when Ronald Reagan took office, the collection was moved to the White House basement, where it is still located. References ^ Jump up to : `` White House basement ''. Whitehousemuseum.org. Retrieved 2009 - 08 - 08. Jump up ^ `` Presidential Dentist Visits U-M '' ( PDF ). University of Michigan School of Dentistry. Spring -- Summer 2006. p. 29. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 2006 - 10 - 14. Retrieved 2009 - 01 - 28. Worm told the dental students that in addition to an operatory in the basement of the White House, there is a dental clinic at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland. Jump up ^ `` White House basement nerve center gets makeover ''. Alertnet.org. 2006 - 12 - 20. Retrieved 2009 - 08 - 08. Jump up ^ `` Eyeballing Presidential Protection ''. Eyeball-series.org. Retrieved 2009 - 08 - 08. Jump up ^ `` White House Plumbing ''. Theplumber.com. 1917 - 12 - 28. Retrieved 2009 - 08 - 08. Jump up ^ `` White House Bowling Alley ''. Whitehousemuseum.org. Retrieved 2009 - 08 - 08. Jump up ^ David Browne ( 2009 - 02 - 05 ). `` Obama 's Secret Record Collection ''. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2009 - 08 - 08. Further reading Seale, William. The President 's House. Washington, D.C. : White House Historical Association, 1987. External links Basement and Sub-basement from whitehousemuseum.org, an unofficial website about the White House Coordinates : 38 ° 53 ′ 51 '' N 77 ° 02 ′ 11 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 38.8976 ° N 77.0365 ° W ﻿ / 38.8976 ; - 77.0365 White House Executive Residence Basement Basement Chief Floral Designer Ground floor China Room collection Office of the Curator Diplomatic Reception Room Library Map Room Vermeil Room State floor Blue Room Cross Hall East Room Entrance Hall Family Dining Room Grand Staircase Green Room Red Room South Portico State Dining Room Chief Usher Second floor Center Hall Dressing Room East Bedroom East Sitting Hall Family Kitchen Lincoln Bedroom Lincoln Sitting Room President 's Bedroom President 's Dining Room Private Sitting Room Queens ' Bedroom Queens ' Sitting Room Treaty Room Truman Balcony West Bedroom West Sitting Hall Yellow Oval Room Third floor Center Hall Diet Kitchen Linen Room Music Room Sun Room Work - out Room West Wing Cabinet Room Executive Office Oval Office desk clock Oval Office Study Press Briefing Room Roosevelt Room Situation Room East Wing Office of the First Lady Graphics and Calligraphy Office Presidential Emergency Operations Center White House Family Theater Social Secretary Visitors Office White House Military Office Grounds The Ellipse Jacqueline Kennedy Garden Lafayette Square North Lawn President 's Park Rose Garden South Lawn White House to Treasury Building tunnel Annex Eisenhower Executive Office Building New Executive Office Building White House Conference Center Blair House Trowbridge House Presidential Townhouse Nearby streets 15th Street 17th Street Constitution Avenue E Street East Executive Avenue H Street NW Hamilton Place Jackson Place Madison Place Pennsylvania Avenue State Place West Executive Avenue Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=White_House_basement&oldid=818827403 '' Categories : Rooms in the White House Subterranea of the United States Continuity of government in the United States Hidden categories : CS1 : Julian -- Gregorian uncertainty Coordinates on Wikidata Talk Contents About Wikipedia ไทย Edit links This page was last edited on 5 January 2018, at 20 : 48. 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Question: when was the bowling alley put in the white house
Answer: 1969