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President's Oval Office

Although the Oval Office is the President’s work room, for the first hundred years of White House history, there was no designated office area.

In 1902, Theodore Roosevelt got tired of the White House being so cramped and ordered the West Wing to be built.

There still wasn’t an Oval Office though. 

His command center is now called the Roosevelt Room, and unlike the Oval Office, it was square.