 Dolley worked with the architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe to furnish the White House, the first official residence built for the president of the United States.She sometimes served as widower Jefferson's hostess for official ceremonial functions.Dolley would become a crucial part of the Washington social circle, befriending the wives of numerous diplomats like Sarah Martinez de Yrujo, wife of the ambassador of Spain, and Marie-Angelique Turreau, the wife of the French ambassador.