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Around the time the East Wing was built, Roosevelt's coatroom in the building was transformed into the White House Family Theatre, according to the White House.—Mason Leath, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2025 The second level includes separate men’s and ladies’ coatrooms and six servants’ rooms.—Robert Khederian, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2025 Three arches cover the walkway from the garage to the coatroom.—Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 28 Jan. 2024 In New York, at the turn of the twentieth century, some enterprising concessionaires paid restaurants thousands of dollars a year to run their coatrooms.—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023 Some of the posts said police arrived at the scene and ran straight to the coatroom.—Fox News, 12 Mar. 2022 At a more formal party, coats should be butlered by staff, rather than having guests queue up at a coatroom.—Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Oct. 2021 Selldorf would excise the staircase, move the coatroom downstairs, and promote the bookstore upstairs, to a new level found by dropping the ticket hall’s ceiling and raising its roof.—Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Apr. 2018 The first stop Hope and Walter D’Agostino made was the coatroom.—Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 10 Dec. 2017
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