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Edward Vason Jones Memorial Hall
Guests enter the rooms in this well proportioned hall.

 

John Q. Adams Room John Quincy Adams State Drawing Room
This room is used for receiving diplomats and other guests.
The Entrance Hall
Design for the hall is based on two Georgian plantation houses on the James River in Virginia.
Thomas Jefferson State Reception Room
The Room contains many features of Jefferson's buildings in Virginia in the neoclassical or Palladian style.
The Gallery
Architect Edward Vason Jones created new designs in the Palladian tradition of Thomas Jefferson's time.
Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room
The largest of the rooms was redesigned architecturally in the classical manner by John Blatteau.
Walter Thurston Gentlemen's Lounge
Designed by Walter M. Macomber, who was the resident architect of Mount Vernon and one of the first architects of Colonial Williamsburg.
Martha Washington's Ladies Lounge
Before renovation, the condition of this area prompted the original curator to volunteer to refurnish the Diplomatic Reception Rooms.