This circa 1889 black and white photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnston depicts the Entrance Hall of the White House, including the Tiffany Screen. In 1882, Louis Comfort Tiffany created this glass screen to separate the Entrance Hall from the Cross Hall. The glass screen featured topaz, ruby, and amethyst jewels set into the glass alongside four eagles and a shield with the initials "US." The glass screen was removed and auctioned off during the Roosevelt renovation, and reinstalled in a Maryland hotel. The surviving glass was destroyed in a fire in 1923.

This photograph of the Blue Room was taken between 1881-1885 during the Chester A. Arthur administration. In 1882, President Arthur commissioned Louis Comfort Tiffany to redecorate several rooms, including the Blue Room as seen here. Tiffany used a variety of robin's-egg blue on the walls and the design included an ivory and silver frieze of embossed, hand-pressed paper. The Blue Room is located on the State Floor of the Executive Mansion and is famous for its oval shape, central location, and views of the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial through the South Portico windows.

This black and white photograph of the Red Room was taken by Ralph Waldo Magee in 1928 during the Calvin Coolidge administration. The Red Room is one of three state parlors on the State Floor of the Executive Mansion named after a color, with the designated red dating as far back as 1845 and the James K. Polk administration. Visible through the east facing doorways is the oval-shaped Blue Room and, beyond, the Green Room and the East Room. At the time of this photograph, the Red Room was used as a parlor for the women of the White House to receive callers. Among the decorations is a rug from Tiffany Studios. Louis Comfort Tiffany had previously redecorated the Red Room for President Chester A. Arthur in 1882.

This black and white photograph of the Red Room was taken around 1884-1885, during the Chester A. Arthur or Grover Cleveland administration. In 1882, President Arthur commissioned designer Louis Comfort Tiffany to redecorate a number of the rooms on the State Floor, including the Red Room. Comfort's redesign of the Red Room was decorated inline with the Aesthetic movement of the 19th century.

This circa 1889 black and white photograph depicts the East Room of the White House after the Tiffany redecoration. Tiffany maintained its classical theme by adding ceiling wallpaper resembling Pompeiian mosaics.

This photograph of the Blue Room by Frances Benjamin Johnston was taken in 1889, likely during the Benjamin Harrison administration. The Blue Room is located on the State Floor of the Executive Mansion and is famous for its oval shape, central location, and views of the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial through the South Portico windows. This photograph was shot looking north towards the Cross Hall with the Entrance Hall obscured by Louis Comfort Tiffany's colored glass screen. The screen was installed to shield the State Drawing Rooms from drafts.

This photograph of the Blue Room was taken around 1882, likely during the Chester A. Arthur administration. President Arthur commissioned Louis Comfort Tiffany to redecorate several rooms that year, including the Blue Room. Tiffany used a variety of robin's-egg blue on the walls and the design included a ceiling patterned with the Union shield, horizontal banding, and a silver embossed pattern as seen on the walls in this photograph. The Blue Room is located on the State Floor of the Executive Mansion and is famous for its oval shape, central location, and views of the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial through the South Portico windows.

This circa 1892 black and white photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnston depicts the Entrance Hall of the White House, including the Tiffany Screen. In 1882, Louis Comfort Tiffany created this glass screen to separate the Entrance Hall from the Cross Hall. The glass screen featured topaz, ruby, and amethyst jewels set into the glass alongside four eagles and a shield with the initials "US." The glass screen was removed and auctioned off during the Roosevelt renovation, and reinstalled in a Maryland hotel. The surviving glass was destroyed in a fire in 1923. Note the electric light bulbs along the bottom of chandelier. The ornate wall decorations were designed by upholsterer Edgar Yergason.

This black and white photograph of the Red Room by Frances Benjamin Johnston was taken in 1882 during the Chester A. Arthur administration. President Arthur commissioned designer Louis Comfort Tiffany to redecorate a number of the rooms on the State Floor in 1882, including the Red Room. Tiffany's redesign of the Red Room was decorated inline with the Aesthetic movement of the 19th century, including the copper and silver ceiling in a star motif and the Herter Brothers armchairs.

This black and white photograph of the Red Room was taken by the Handy Studios before 1891. In 1882, President Arthur commissioned designer Louis Comfort Tiffany to redecorate a number of the rooms on the State Floor, including the Red Room. Tiffany's redesign of the Red Room was decorated in line with the Aesthetic movement of the 19th century.

This photograph of the Blue Room was taken between 1883-1884, during the Chester A. Arthur administration. In 1882, President Arthur commissioned Louis Comfort Tiffany to redecorate several rooms, including the Blue Room as seen here. Tiffany used a variety of robin's-egg blue on the walls and the design included an ivory and silver frieze of embossed, hand-pressed paper. The Blue Room is located on the State Floor of the Executive Mansion and is famous for its oval shape, central location, and views of the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial through the South Portico windows.

This photograph of the Entrance Hall by Frances Benjamin Johnston was taken in 1889 during the Benjamin Harrison administration. The Entrance Hall is located just beyond the front door of the North Portico in the Executive Mansion. In 1882 Chester A. Arthur commissioned the interior designs and decorative arts of Louis Comfort Tiffany to make the Entrance Hall more welcoming. In this photograph, Tiffany's colored glass screen was placed to make the hall more warm and welcoming to visitors as well as to keep the cold, winter draft of the front door from the drawing rooms beyond.

This Tiffany vase is one of a pair placed on the Red Room mantel by Louis Comfort Tiffany during a major redecoration project during the Arthur Administration. They were modeled after a form made at Sevres in France in the early 19th century. This vase has a hand-painted scene of Cupid being locked away for his mischief.

The vases here come from two different pairs that decorated the mantel in the Red Room. The vase on the left is one of a pair of Satsuma vases purchased and placed on either side of the Red Room mantel which were replaced by the Tiffany vase on the right and its companion. This replacement happened when President Chester Arthur commissioned Louis C. Tiffany and Co./Associated Artists to execute major decorative work for most of the White House State Floor in 1882. The rooms Tiffany decorated were: the East Room, Blue Room, Red Room, Entrance Hall, and Cross Hall.

This photograph of the White House north entrance was taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston circa 1893. Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass windows appear in the door and in the tympanum above. Johnston, one of the first prominent female photographers, specialized both in portrait and architectural photography. Between the 1880s and 1910s, she spent a great deal of time documenting the architecture and inhabitants of the White House.