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Question: Why is a drawing room called so? We don't draw painting in this room then, we do call it drawing room? (Asked by Ayaz Ahmad Awan) Answer: In England (around the 17th century), after dinner, the men of the house used to assemble for wine and cigars or just linger on in the same room. The women would withdraw to a different room called the withdrawing room, for obvious reasons. The word ''drawing room is just a crude change of the original withdrawing room
The window-less Roosevelt Room occupies the original site of the president's office when the West Wing was built in 1902. Seven years later, the room became a part of two waiting rooms when the West Wing was expanded and the Oval Office was built. When Franklin Roosevelt relocated the Oval Office from the center of the building to the southeast corner in 1934, this room received a skylight. Franklin Roosevelt called this room the Fish Room, where he displayed an aquarium and fishing mementos.