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Edward Vason Jones Memorial Hall Guests enter the rooms in this well proportioned hall.
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John Quincy Adams State Drawing Room This room is used for receiving diplomats and other guests. |
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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. |