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The White House Reconstruction, also known as the Truman Reconstruction, was a comprehensive dismantling and rebuilding of the interior of the White House from 1949 to 1952. A century and a half of wartime destruction and rebuilding, hurried renovations, additions of new services, technologies, the added third floor and inadequate foundations ...
Aug 30, 2017 · Here, we chronicle major renovations to the famous home through the years. An early elevation drawing of the original White House by James Hoban. 1789–1800: The New Seat of a New Nation. Helmed ...
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White House Historical Association. President John Adams first occupied the President's House on November 1, 1800. It stood for thirteen years and eight months until it was burned during the British invasion in August 1814. After a concerted effort by Congress to move the capital to Cincinnati, the government appointed two architects to "repair ...
The White House, situated on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, was built between 1792 and 1800 by the first US President George Washington (although he never lived in it). The architect of this infamous building was Irish-born Architect James Hoban, who designed it in the Neoclassical style of Architecture. It was not known as The White House until ...
John and Abigail Adams moved into a partially completed White House in late 1800. Construction started eight years earlier, based on James Hoban's design in an architectural competition. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson influenced the building's final look. The two-story house was one of the nation's largest.
Oct 21, 2015 · When Harry Truman assumed office in 1945, the building was in such a state of disrepair that the White House usher was embarrassed to give the new president the grand tour.
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May 12, 2015 · SMART NEWS. The White House is Mostly a Reconstruction of the Original. The mansion may have been built over 200 years ago, but its skeleton was redone in the early 1950s. Harry Truman became ...
