How Every President from Taft to Trump Decorated the Oval Office

Explore how every president from Taft to Biden reshaped the Oval Office, as President Trump's White House renovations ...

No, Trump did not move the Resolute Desk from Oval Office to Mar-a-Lago

In November 2025, a rumor spread online that U.S. President Donald Trump had moved the historic Resolute Desk from the Oval ...

Trump turning White House into North Mar-a-Lago: Tall flagpoles, gold and gilded ballroom

During Trump's first term, Mar-a-Lago was referred to as the Southern White House. Now Trump is turning the White House a ...
WFAE

Former director at the White House Historical Association on the East Wing renovation

The East Wing of the White House is no more. What started on Monday, with images of excavators and talk of renovation to accommodate President Trump's promised ballroom, finished with the razing of an ...
USA Today

A piano through the floor: The controversial history of White House renovations

WASHINGTON – President Harry Truman knew it was time to gut the White House when the leg of a black Baldwin grand piano broke through the floor of his daughter Margaret’s sitting room. The president ...