Its walls and ceiling were decorated with ornamental stenciling and allegorical symbols of the Navy Department, hand painted in typical Victorian colors. William McPherson, a well-known Boston decorator and painter, designed the room. Since its restoration in the 1980s, it has been considered a ceremonial office. Since 1960, it has been occupied by every Vice President except for Hubert Humphrey, who used a room on the floor below. Pershing’s occupancy of the office was interrupted only once during these 26 years, when President Hoover was forced to relocate his offices following a Christmas Eve fire in the West Wing in 1929. From 1921 until 1947, General John Pershing occupied the room as Army Chief of Staff and Chairman of the Battle Monuments Commission. Sixteen Secretaries of the Navy worked here between 18. Today, the Vice President uses the office for meetings and press interviews. This office, called the Vice President’s Ceremonial Office, served as the Navy Secretary’s Office when the EEOB housed the State, Navy, and War Departments. In addition to the Vice President’s Office in the West Wing, the Vice President and his or her staff maintain a set of offices in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB), located next to the West Wing on the White House premises. Scientists observe the sun, moon, planets, and selected stars, determine and precisely measure the time, and publish astronomical data needed for accurate navigation. Still, the Naval Observatory has continued to operate.
Vice Presidents have welcomed countless guests to the residence, including foreign leaders and dignitaries.
It has since been home to the families of Vice Presidents Bush, Quayle, Gore, Cheney, Biden, and Pence. Walter Mondale was the first Vice President to move into the home. Vice President Gerald Ford acceded to the Presidency before he could use the home, and his Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller, only used it for entertaining. Three years passed before any Vice President actually lived at Number One Observatory Circle. Finally, in 1974, Congress agreed to refurbish the house at the Naval Observatory as a home for the Vice President. Historically, Vice Presidents and their families lived in their own homes, but the cost of securing these private residences grew substantially over the years. Originally intended for the superintendent of the USNO, the house was so lovely that in 1923, the chief of naval operations kicked out the superintendent so he could move in himself. The white nineteenth-century house at Number One Observatory Circle in northwestern Washington, D.C. With their offices located on the White House grounds, Vice Presidents since Walter Mondale have lived with their families on the grounds of the United States Naval Observatory.
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