See the Childhood Home Where President Joe Biden Grew Up in Pennsylvania

Mar. 15, 2025

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Joe Bidenmay currently call Washington, D.C. home, but long before the politician became the 46th president of the United States, he spent some of his formative years in this Scranton, Pa., residence.

The three-story Colonial home at 2446 N. Washington Ave. is located in Scranton’s Green Ridge neighborhood, and Biden’s family lived there with his maternal grandparents, who were the homeowners, according toABC News. In 1953, when Biden was 10 years old, he and his family moved to Claymont, Del.,House Beautifulreported.

The current owner of the home said she bought the house from the Biden family in 1962 and detailed to ABC News that Biden “has visited often.”

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Deputy Director of Oval Office Operations Ashley Williams gaveThe Washington Postan exclusive tour of Biden’s official new digs, which includes an extensive number of paintings and busts featuring the likenesses of influential past presidents and other figures who have made huge strides throughout American history.

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“ThisOval is an Oval for Day One,” Williams told thePostin 2021, adding, “It was important for President Biden to walk into an Oval that looked like America and started to show the landscape of who he is going to be as president.”

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While portraits of former presidents likeGeorge Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Lincoln adorn the walls (as well as of other notable people involved in the country’s founding, like Benjamin Franklin andAlexander Hamilton), gone is the portrait of the controversialAndrew Jacksonthat hung in the office of Trump.

Biden selected a dark-blue rug that was in the room whenBill Clintonwas in office, as well as drapes in a darker shade of gold than what Trump used and pieces of furniture (e.g., tables and sofas) from the White House collection.

source: people.com