Images of the East Wing of the White House being pulled down to make way for an expansive new ballroom have sparked controversy in some quarters.
As some historians have noted, however, the $300 million ballroom will join a long line of renovations that, regardless of how they were received at the time of construction, eventually became cherished parts of the building’s facade.
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