The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-08
WHITE HOUSE CHANGES
Interior ofPresident's Residence
Will Be Remodeled.
IMPROVEMENTS TO BE EXTENSIVE

Features Of tile Executive :.
Mansion Not to be Destroyed-The 9
Dinfng Room Will Be Enlarged 4
sixty Per Cent-New ONCE Building I
For the President. !
When the restoration of the White
House recently begun is finished. per
haps about Dec. l, the historic resi-
dence Of the president will conform as
nearly to the plans adopted for it by
Washington as the architect, Mr.. Nc
Kim, can make it, says the Washing
ton correspondent of the New York
Tribune. 1t is his purpose to make
over the mansion according to the
plans which would have been followed
a century ago had circumstances per-
mitted. The plans being used for this
work are the original drawings. The
only modification of these plans Will
be due to changed methods Of heating.
illumination and construction.
The original plans for the White
House contemplated providing for the
president a residence and nothing
more. The plans now being executed
will restore the house as a residence.
and a small brick Office building con-
nected by a ~passagewAy with the main
building and painted white, in keeping
with it's surroundings, will provide an
office for the president and his clerks.
This building will be entered from
| Seventeenth street, opposite the state.
war and navy building, n 1t is there
that all official business callers on the
president will go. This office building
is regarded as temporary, to be used
until the president has an appropriate
office building north of the White
House grounds and on one of the sites
that surround Lafayette park, all Of
which have been indicated by the park
commission as ultimately to be used
for public buildings.
The removal of the offices Of the pres
ident from the White House is regard
ed as necessary for reasons aside from
convenience and the proper transac-
ton of public business. A preliminary
examination of the building has shown
that the portion of the house devoted
to the offices of the president is weak,
II! dlu IL Is lICSCSSAly W 81 - $4,000
from the weight that has long been Oh
them. The house needs modern bath
rooms, aud there is need for restoring
many features Of the building on a uni.
form plan SO as to eliminate many In.
congruities that have crept in from
> time to time when Improvements or re
: pairs have been made. This make nee
essary the doing over OF the entire
house instead of merely one portion o.
it. The public DON will be mad
over. The dining room will be enlarged
go per cent in order to permit the enter
tainment Of a large company n t
z make it unnecessary to use the cas-
room for such purposes.
The placing of porticoes on the ives
and on the east of tie White House !
n in conformity with old prints in tn
> library of congress. These porticoes eS
tend $50 feet from the main buildin
and contain servants quarters, laundr,
and storerooms. The porticoes are o
the level Of the garden on the sou
while on the north the roofs reach I
d. the driveway. The use to be made Q
e. the western portico will allow the bass
ment of the White House itself to bt
. come available for other purposes, sue
as cloakrooms, a smoking room, etc.
The Dortico east Of the house will b
used as an entrance when reception
are held. This arrangement will q
much to avert the crush now cause
at the temporary cloak boxes erecte
> Immediately within the main entrane
70 -. .oo-@io~e n vo hold Hinder fh
! east corridor 500 people could be she
:. tered while waiting for their carriage
= the porte cochere being sufficient
make room for three carriages at
time. A separate entrance and dres
!. ing rooms will be provided for spec1
guests, so that confusion will be avoi
~. ed on occasions of ceremony.
:. The president will have a room
the White House in which he can s.
callers at times when he is moi IN q
Office The private staircase Will
removed. and in that way the d1nil
room will be enlarged 60 per cent.
is expected that the Office building W
be ready for occupancy by Oct. l al
;s the remaining portions of the house
Dec. L.
Senators Allison, Hale and Cockr'
and Representatives Cannon, Heme
way and McRae, the senate and hou
conferees on the urgent deficiency b
nd have reached an agreement as to t
ors amount Of the appropriation for t
ia changes that are to be made at t
to White House and had a conferen
with the president the other day. I
er. amount to be appropriated is $36O.OU
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