Visitors Foyer

Barack Obama and his chief of staff in 2010 (White House - Pete Souza)

The Visitors' Entrance

Past the Garden Room and the Family Theater, visitors pause in the large foyer before entering the White House Residence at the ground level (the Residence sits on higher ground).

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CEO Carlos Slim crosses the foyer in 2010 (Getty Images)

The national anthem plays before the Super Bowl in 2009 (Corbis | White House - Pete Souza)

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu in 2009 (AP)

Kennedy Center honorees Roger Daltrey and Jack Black in the Foyer in 2008 (Corbis - Ken Cedeno)

The Fillmore portrait in 2007 (Sarah E Jensen)

Lighting of a menorah in the Foyer in 2006 (White House)

Foyer entrance to the Residence ground floor, circa 2005 (Wasylik)

Looking back east into the foyer, circa 2005 (jrazz12)

Lighting of a menorah in the Foyer in 2004 (White House)

Performers in the Foyer in 1998 (The Local Girls)

Foyer in 1962, looking to the northwest (Kennedy Library - Robert Knudsen)

Foyer in 1962, looking to the northeast (Kennedy Library - Robert Knudsen)

JFK (and probably Eleanor Roosevelt) passing through the foyer in 1962 (Life | Life)

Foyer entrance to the Residence ground floor in 1948 (Truman Library - U of U Marriott Library - Abbie Rowe)

Foyer entrance to the Residence ground floor, circa 1930, looking northeast at the doors to the cloak room (now the Family Theater) (NARA)