The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical style. It has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades that were meant to conceal stables and storage. In 1814, during the War of 1812, the mansion was set ablaze by the British Army in the Burning of Washington, destroying the interior and charring much of the exterior. Reconstruction began almost immediately, and President James Monroe moved into the partially reconstructed house in October 1817. Construction continued with the addition of the South Portico in 1824 and the North in 1829. Because of crowding within the...

Building Function: Office  Residential  
Floor Space: 5,100 m²; 
Floors: 6; 
Occupant: Barack Obama - Jan 2009; George W. Bush - Jan 2001 - Jan 2009; Bill Clinton - Jan 1993 - Jan 2001; George H. W. Bush - Jan 1989 - Jan 1993; Ronald Reagan - Jan 1981 - Jan 1989; Red Room; 
Address: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C., United States of America 20500; Northwest, Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.; 
Architect: James Hoban  
Architectural Style: Palladian architecture  Neoclassical architecture  Neoclassicism  
Destroyed By: Fire  
Destruction Date: 1812; 
Opened: 1800; 
Appears in ranked lists: America's Favorite Architecture - 2; 
Works Written About This Topic: This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood  Real Life at the White House: 200 Years of Daily Life at America's Most Famous Residence; The White House Mess  The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis  
Software: White House  
Exhibitions at this venue: White House State Easter Egg 2007 Exhibit; 
Contained by: Washington, D.C.  
Contains: Red Room  
Events: White House State Easter Egg 2006 Exhibit  White House State Easter Egg 2008 Exhibit  White House State Easter Egg 2007 Exhibit  White House Easter Egg Roll  
Geolocation: 38.89767, -77.03655; 
Projects: Initial design and construction of White House  
Near travel destination: Washington, D.C.  
Artworks owned: The Avenue in the Rain; Nocturne; 
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