Where were the offices for the Executive Branch?
Most of the work of the Executive Branch was carried out in a single room on the third floor of the PH by Washington’s secretary and 4 clerks. (Now, the Executive Branch occupies the West Wing of the White House and the entire Executive Office Building.) Washington complained that those doing business with the United States had to climb 2 pairs of flights of stairs and to get to the public office. The President’s private office, the equivalent of the Oval Office, was a second-floor bathingroom off the kitchen ell from which the bathtubs had been removed. This probably was also where the President met with his Cabinet.
