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3 unusual facts about West Wing


Alexa Junge

Junge went on to write for Once and Again, Sex and the City, West Wing (where she was nominated for two Emmys and two WGA Awards) as well as

West Wing

During the 1930s, the March of Dimes constructed a swimming pool so that FDR could exercise, as therapy for his disability.

Today, most of the staff members of the Executive Office of the President are located in the adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building—originally the State, War, and Navy Building, after the departments it was built to house.


Charles Hook Tompkins

Charles Hook Tompkins (November 30, 1883 – December 12, 1956) was president and co-founder with his wife of the Charles H. Tompkins Construction Company, which built the United States Courthouse, the West Wing and East Wing of the White House, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and the National Guard Armory.

Web of Deception

With the aide of defense attorney Larry Lake (West Wing’s Bradley Whitford) and police detective Fracinetti (The Wire’s Paul Ben-Victor) Benesch uses his psychiatric knowledge to unravel the nefarious web.


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Ahlden House

The west wing is the main building of the mansion, which Duke Christian the Elder of Brunswick-Lüneburg had built by his seneschal (Drost), Johann Behr, in 1613.

Church of the Holy Ghost, Copenhagen

Of these the present-day church has evolved from the south wing while the House of the Holy Ghost is the former west wing.

Diana-Maria Riva

Riva starred as Lieutenant Ana Ruiz in the 2010 FOX series The Good Guys as the boss of detectives Dan Stark (West Wing/Studio 60 alum Bradley Whitford) and Jack Bailey (Colin Hanks) in the Dallas Police Department.

East Block

George-Étienne Cartier used an office at the northern end of the west wing, which was thereafter used by every prime minister until Pierre Trudeau.

Elena Cornaro Piscopia

This scene is illustrated in the Cornaro Window in the West Wing of the Thompson Memorial Library at Vassar College.

Inger and Johannes Exner

In 2001 they completed a new West wing for the Ter Apel Monastery in the Netherlands.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

She spent seven years in the West Wing of the White House, working her way up to become a key member of Henry Kissinger's National Security Council Staff.

Kevin Falls

He won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for three consecutive years (2001-2003) for his work on The West Wing.

Michaelsberg Abbey, Siegburg

Since 1997 the Edith Stein Retreat House of the Archdiocese of Cologne has operated at this location, using the north wing and also a large part of the west wing of the abbey.

Paul Redford

Redford and his fellow producers won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 2003 for their work on The West Wing season four.

Stoneleigh Cricket Club

The club was formed in 1839 by Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh and the ground was established in front of the West Wing of Stoneleigh Abbey for the benefit of his sons William Henry Leigh and Edward Chandos Leigh so that they might continue to play cricket in the summer on returning home from Harrow School.

West Wing Week

One unnamed journalist, interviewed by the BBC, said some members of the White House press corps "resent" the access Chaudhary gets, adding that sometimes events appear on West Wing Week that were closed to the press.

Zwinger

Nearby buildings include the Dresden State Theatre to the southwest, the Haus am Zwinger to the south, the Taschenbergpalais hotel to the southeast, the west wing of the palace with its Green Vault to the east, the Altstädtische Hauptwache to the northeast, the Semper Opera to the north and the former royal stables to the northwest.