U.S. State Department
Diplomatic Reception Rooms
Washington, D.C.
Diplomatic Reception Rooms
Washington, D.C.
| The Diplomatic Reception Rooms are among the most beautiful rooms in the world used for official entertaining. The 18th-century-style rooms are located in the Main State Department building. In this setting the Secretary of State, the Vice President, and Members of the Cabinet entertain the leaders of the world as well as foreign and American dignitaries. |  |
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 The Entrance Hall Design for the hall is based on two Georgian plantation houses on the James River in Virginia. |
 Edward Vason Jones Memorial Hall Guests enter the rooms in this well proportioned hall. |
 The Gallery Architect Edward Vason Jones created new designs in the Palladian tradition of Thomas Jefferson's time. |
 John Quincy Adams State Drawing Room This room is used for receiving diplomats and other guests. |
 Thomas Jefferson Reception Room The Room contains many features of Jefferson's buildings in Virginia in the neoclassical or Palladian style. |
 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. |
