Presidential residences

Northwest view in the East Room of the White House. The four temporary steel shoring columns have been installed to support the roof and third floor during the renovation work.

View of west face and south portico of the White House during renovation, showing temporary wooden steps to the roof and the chute from the southwest window of the Monroe Room to hopper used for disposal of debris from 2nd and 3rd floors.

View looking north from within Broadcasting Room during renovation of the White House. The brick arch walks on each side of Study, Blue Room, and the Broadcasting Room were removed preparatory to installation of permanent steel shoring columns.

The bricks of the east wall of the Red Room, with doorways into the Blue Room, are exposed during the White House renovation. Below the arches are the bricked up doorways dating from about 1795. The doorways were shifted during the reconstruction from 1815-1818.

View down underpinning pit with bottom of brick cistern seen at top of opening. Photograph taken from Usher's Dressing Room during the renovation of the White House.

View at bottom of underpinning pit in the Usher's Dressing Room showing brickwork of old cistern at edge of pit. This was taken during the renovation of the White House.

East view of roof from above the South Portico showing sandstone blocks from large chimney near the southeast corner being lowered by the hoist. This was taken during the White House renovation.

Southwest view in Sitting Room 19 with small Bedroom 18 on the right, during renovation of the White House. The hand-hewn wood joists date from 1815-1818.

West view of entire length of the lower corridor during the renovation of the White House. The shoring columns in the foreground to the first floor are permanent, while the columns beyond are temporary. The extension of these columns to the third floor will be temporary to support the roof during construction.

View taken from center of north face to the northeast corner of the White House during renovation. Along this face, almost all of the concrete underpinning columns have been completed.