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the white house
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13.The White House is made of gray-colored sandstone from a quarry in Aquia, Virginia.
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- D.C. land was acquired from Virginia and Maryland
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- D.C, call for enormous presidential palace.n
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- the white house counterstone was lade in 1792
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10.After 150 years, wooden support beams and exterior load-bearing walls of the White House were weak
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- 1800 Jefferson work on several addition
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9.The original builders of the White House didn't consider the possibility of a president with a disability
The White House didn't become wheelchair accessible until Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933
President Roosevelt lived with paralysis due to polio, so the White House was remodeled to accommodate his wheelchair.
- wouldn't be made without eurpoen artisans and immigrant laborers
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- Washington selected James Hoban's plan, but he felt it was too small and simple for a president
supervision, Hoban's plan was expanded and the White House was given a grand reception room elegant pilasters, window hoods, and stone swags of oak leaves and flowers.
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- Creating an edible White House has become a Christmas tradition and challenge for the official pastry chef and a team of bakers at the White House.
In 2002 the theme was "All Creatures Great and Small,"
80 pounds of gingerbread, 50 pounds of chocolate, and 20 pounds of marzipan the White House was called the best Christmas confection ever.
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