The White House

“WASHINGTON,D.C”

·       The White House is the  offical residence   and  president of united states  is the  principal workplace  located at 1600  pennsylvania Avenue NW  in  Washington,D.C .  Since Johan Adams  in 1800, has been the residence of every U.S. president, and the term is often used by journalists as a  metonym  to refer to the acts of the President and his top advisors.

·       The house was designed by Irish-born  James hoban  and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted  Aquia Creek sandstone  in the  Neoclassical Style  . 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, , the mansion was set ablaze by the  British Army   in the   Burning of Washington,  destroying the interior and charring much of the exterior during the  War of 1812 . In October 1817,  reconstruction began almost immediately, and President   James Monroe   moved into the partially reconstructed  Executive Residence  . Construction continued with the addition of the South Portico in 1824 and the North in 1829.

·       Palladian  is a combination of the  mansion's southern façade and neoclassical styles of architecture. It is of three floors, all visible. The ground floor is “rusticated”  in the Palladian fashion.  At the centre of the façade is a neoclassical projecting bow of three bays. The bow is flanked by 5 bays, the windows of which, as on the north façade, have alternating segmented and pointed pediments at first-floor level. The bow has a ground floor  double  staircase  leading to an lonic colonnaded loggia  (with the Truman Balcony   at second-floor level), known as the “south portico”. The more modern third floor is hidden by a balustraded  parapet and plays no part in the composition of the façade.