Copy to Clipboard President-elect Joe Biden, then Vice President, attends a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office at the White House on September 4, 2015, in Washington DC (Getty Images) A State Department official has revealed that President-elect Joe Biden has accepted an offer from the White House to stay at the Blair House for the night before the inauguration. The president's guest house sits across from the White House at 1651 Pennsylvania Ave. For decades, presidents-elect have spent the night there on the eve of Inauguration Day. Workers assemble a protective tent in front of Blair House, where President-elect Barack Obama and his family will be staying during the inaugural weekend across from the White House on January 14, 2009, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)