Furniture from the White House theater has been "meticulously preserved," according to a letter sent to a commission overseeing the changes, and it may be incorporated after the new structure is done.

Donald Trump is dumping the wreckage of his East Wing teardown onto a public park in D.C.—and locals are fuming. Since reducing the White House’s historic East Wing to nothing but mangled metal and rubble to make way for his gigantic $400 million ballroom,

The Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that advises the president and Congress on design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings, is usually made up of experts in architecture,