sentences:  In 1837, President Martin Van Buren made the bedroom that would become the China Room into quarters for a stoker, whose job was to keep the White House furnace fueled 24 hours a day, seven days a week (with summers off).First Lady Edith Wilson turned this room into the China Room in 1917 to display the Executive Residence's growing collection of White House china.Just east of the China Room, the 1902 renovation turned the staff bedroom into a sitting room known as the Social Room.