reception hall

Mourners walked across the cathedral plaza and were greeted by the USC Trojan Marching Band before heading to a large second-floor reception hall.

It was subsequently expanded with a gatehouse, reception hall and display room by Norman Shaw in the following decade.

During the roughly 18-minute, mostly low-key talk in a domed reception hall at Lotte Hotel Seattle, formerly First United Methodist Church of Seattle, Biden pointed again and again to Trump’s recent interview with Time magazine about his plans for a second term — including using the National Guard to sweep up and deport millions of undocumented immigrants, who Trump has said are “poisoning the blood” of America.

Despite its derelict state, there are reminders of its better days - a marble-floored reception hall, a large pool and wrought iron railings.

Some slept in corridors, on the floor, even on a baggage scanner in a reception hall belonging to Hamas, the Islamist militant group which governs Gaza.