Decorating style reminiscent of the late Rococovfefe period

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Zoo_View said:
Yes, the proper way to demolish a building with asbestos in it is to knock it down with heavy machinery. No need to contain the asbestos and dispose of it properly.
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They're all so stupid and would never get a high-ranking job in any other presidential administration (other than Trump 1.0), and yet here we are. And they get away with because their base is also mostly stupid and/or doesn't care as long as they're owning the libs.
 


“When President Harry S. Truman undertook a large-scale renovation of the White House in the 1940s, the place was in such a state of disrepair that the leg of his daughter’s piano fell through the floor.

As he embarked on a major overhaul, Mr. Truman involved stakeholders far and wide.

Working with the House and Senate, Mr. Truman appointed a bipartisan, six-person commission to oversee the project. He consulted the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Commission of Fine Arts, which approved sketches made by Lorenzo S. Winslow, the White House architect, as well as smaller details like fabric samples and color schemes.

Funds for the project — more than $5 million at the time — were approved by Congress after significant debate.

… Mr. Trump’s ballroom plans also differ drastically from Mr. Truman’s renovation.

“The reason that these renovations went forward is because they were absolutely necessary for the place to be livable,” Marc Selverstone, the director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said of Mr. Truman’s renovations. “And that seems to be quite a different rationale than the one that is being provided now.”…”
 
nycfan said:


“When President Harry S. Truman undertook a large-scale renovation of the White House in the 1940s, the place was in such a state of disrepair that the leg of his daughter’s piano fell through the floor.

As he embarked on a major overhaul, Mr. Truman involved stakeholders far and wide.

Working with the House and Senate, Mr. Truman appointed a bipartisan, six-person commission to oversee the project. He consulted the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Commission of Fine Arts, which approved sketches made by Lorenzo S. Winslow, the White House architect, as well as smaller details like fabric samples and color schemes.

Funds for the project — more than $5 million at the time — were approved by Congress after significant debate.

… Mr. Trump’s ballroom plans also differ drastically from Mr. Truman’s renovation.

“The reason that these renovations went forward is because they were absolutely necessary for the place to be livable,” Marc Selverstone, the director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said of Mr. Truman’s renovations. “And that seems to be quite a different rationale than the one that is being provided now.”…”
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“…Upon investigating the situation in 1948, engineers confirmed that the White House was in danger of collapse.

The beams holding up the State Dining Room “should have fallen long ago” and were “staying up there from force of habit only,” W. E. Reynolds, commissioner of the Public Building Service, wrote to Mr. Truman.

The East Room ceiling had drooped six inches, with cracks “rapidly extending outward indicating immediate danger of the ceiling falling,” Howell G. Crim, the chief usher of the White House, wrote…”

[I read elsewhere this was in significant part due to corners cut in the rushed rebuild of the WH after the Brits burned it during the War of 1812, further complicated by poor maintenance in the succeeding 130+ years — they had to gut it and put in steel beams because the weight-bearing wood was rotting]
 
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