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white house history (White House has been called many names (White…
white house history
- White House has been called many names
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President's Castle, President's Palace," the "President's House," and the "Executive Mansion
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gray-colored sandstone from a quarry in Aquia, Virginia, constructed with red Seneca sandstone from Maryland.
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80 pounds of gingerbread, 50 pounds of chocolate, and 20 pounds of marzipan the White House was called the best Christmas confection ever.
- Washington never lived in the White House
In 1800, when the White House was almost finished
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- fire broke out in the West Wing of the white house
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- Jefferson worked with British-born architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe on several additions
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- White House could not have been completed without European artisans and immigrant laborers
Scottish stone workers, Craftsmen from Scotland, Irish and Italian immigrants
Later, Italian artisans carved the decorative stonework on the White House porticoes
- FDR Made It Wheelchair Accessible
The White House didn't become wheelchair accessible until Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933
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- an elaborate and enormous presidential palace was made.
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- mansion in the new U.S. capital was built using drawings by Irish-born James Hoban, who had studied in Dublin
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- Truman Saved It From Collapse
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- land that became Washington, D.C.
Virginia and Maryland
dug the footings for the White House, built the foundations, and fired bricks for the interior walls
- The British burned the white house.
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