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The East Wing of the White House has been demolished. Here’s a look at its history The East Wing of the White House, the traditional headquarters for the first lady and her staff as well as the public entrance to the “people’s house,” was largely torn down this week to make way for President Donald Trump’s new $300 million ballroom. Trump has touted the planned 90,000-square-foot space as an attempt to modernize the East Wing. Trump officials say the construction process is following legal and historical precedent. But the images that emerged this week of construction equipment demolishing the facade have prompted outrage over the lack of oversight of the project and raised questions about its scope. whitehouse3Two satellite views that show the East Wing of the White House before (top) and after demolition (below) in Washington, D.C. Images by 2025 Planet Labs PBC via Reuters A Virginia couple sued the Trump administration on Thursday in an attempt to halt the ballroom project. Charles and Judith Voorhees asked a federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order to stop further destruction to the mansion, saying the project moved forward “without legally required approvals or reviews.” Several preservation groups have expressed concern in recent weeks about the project, which is the first major change to the exterior of the White House in 83 years. Collectively, their separate statements said a more transparent and thorough review process was needed before the ballroom project got underway. Communication about how the ballroom project would affect the main structure of the building was confusing from the beginning, said Priya Jain, chair of the Society of Architectural Historians’ Heritage Conservation Committee. “There was kind of an ambiguity about the way things were framed from the get-go,” she said, adding that the society’s letter asked for more clarification and transparency around the White House’s statements, given the mansion is a highly significant historical building. In remarks to reporters last week, Trump said that two unnamed advisors had told him he could start the ballroom construction immediately, forgoing any oversight or zoning. He said the advisors told him, “Sir, this is the White House. You’re the president of the United States. You can do anything you want.” What was the history of the East Wing? How has it changed over time? In flattening the East Wing of the White House, “we lose a significant piece of history,” author Kate Andersen Brower said. The wing, which was originally constructed in 1902 and renovated in 1942, served as the public entrance to the White House, and housed the family movie theater as well as offices on legislative affairs, the military and the in-house calligraphers. Perhaps most prominently, though, it included office space for the first lady and her aides. Rosalynn Carter was the first presidential spouse to keep an office in the East Wing, Brower said. Before that, many first ladies worked out of the residence in a sitting room near their bedrooms. For Brower, who wrote “The Residence” about daily life inside the White House and “First Women” about the role of modern first ladies, what has happened to the East Wing “speaks a lot to how diminished the role of the president’s spouse has become.” “Truly, the power center in the White House is always the Oval Office and the West Wing, and proximity to the Oval Office is so important,” she added. “If you have the first lady and her staff working out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which I think is what will likely happen, they’re even more removed from the center of power. I mean, the East Wing has been called ‘Siberia’ as a joke inside the White House. If there’s anything farther away than Siberia, that’s it.” An image of President Barack Obama standing with a White House staffer sitting at her desk.President Barack Obama with Melissa Winter, an aide to first lady Michelle Obama, in the East Wing, March 2009. Source: National Archives During the White House press briefing on Thursday, Leavitt indicated the first lady’s offices would move back into the rebuilt East Wing. During Donald Trump’s first term as president, first lady Melania Trump did not use her East Wing office, Brower noted. “It was so, basically, vacant that her staff had it as a gift-wrapping room and had gifts put in there,” she said. Is the White House exempted from a preservation process? The U.S. has a long-standing process for assessing a federal or a federally assisted project in terms of its effect on historic and cultural buildings, Jain said. A key part of the National Historic Preservations Act of 1966 is the Section 106 review process. It outlines steps for various stakeholders and agencies to follow, such as determining whether any one project would have adverse effects on a structure, and developing alternative approaches that would avoid or minimize these effects on these properties.