 Franklin D. Roosevelt working at the Hoover desk in the Oval Office | |
| Designer | J. Stuart Clingman (built by the Robert W. Irwin Company) |
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| Date | 1930 |
| Made in | Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| Materials | American lumber, faced with Michigan-grown maple |
| Style / tradition | block front desk |
| Height | 30.75 in (78.1 cm) |
| Width | 82.5 in (210 cm) |
| Depth | 45.5 in (116 cm) |
| Collection | Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum |
The Hoover desk, also known colloquially as FDR's Oval Office desk, is a large block front desk, used by Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Oval Office. Created in 1930 as a part of a 17-piece office suite by furniture makers from Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Art Deco desk was given to the White House by the Grand Rapids Furniture Manufacturers Association during the Hoover administration. The desk was designed by J. Stuart Clingman, and was built by the Robert W. Irwin Company from American lumber and faced with Michigan-grown maple burl wood veneer. After Roosevelt's sudden death in 1945, Harry S. Truman removed the desk from the Oval Office and gave it to Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt. She displayed it at, and later donated it to, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York. The desk has been on display there ever since. The Hoover desk is one of only six desks to be used by a president in the Oval Office.