In May 1790, construction began on a new official residence in Manhattan called Government House. The executive mansion moved to the larger quarters of the Alexander Macomb House at 39–41 Broadway where he stayed with his wife and a small staff until August 1790. He lived at the first, known as the Franklin House and owned by Treasury Commissioner Samuel Osgood, at 3 Cherry Street, through late February 1790.
In 2007, it was ranked second on the American Institute of Architects list of " America's Favorite Architecture".įurther information: Presidency of George Washington § Residencesįollowing his April 1789 inauguration, President George Washington occupied two private houses in New York City as the executive mansion. The property is a National Heritage Site owned by the National Park Service and is part of the President's Park. The Executive Residence is made up of six stories: the Ground Floor, State Floor, Second Floor, and Third Floor, as well as a two-story basement. The modern-day White House complex includes the Executive Residence, the West Wing, the East Wing, the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (the former State Department, which now houses offices for the president's staff and the vice president) and Blair House, a guest residence. Once the structural work was completed, the interior rooms were rebuilt. On the exterior, the Truman Balcony was added. Truman, the interior rooms were completely dismantled and a new internal load-bearing steel frame was constructed inside the walls. By 1948, the residence's load-bearing walls and wood beams were found to be close to failure. The East Wing alterations were completed in 1946, creating additional office space. A newly constructed East Wing was used as a reception area for social events Jefferson's colonnades connected the new wings. In the main mansion (Executive Residence), the third-floor attic was converted to living quarters in 1927 by augmenting the existing hip roof with long shed dormers. Eight years later, in 1909, President William Howard Taft expanded the West Wing and created the first Oval Office, which was eventually moved as the section was expanded. Exterior construction continued with the addition of the semi-circular South portico in 1824 and the North portico in 1829.īecause of crowding within the executive mansion itself, President Theodore Roosevelt had all work offices relocated to the newly constructed West Wing in 1901. Reconstruction began almost immediately, and President James Monroe moved into the partially reconstructed Executive Residence in October 1817.
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. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) added low colonnades on each wing that concealed stables and storage. Construction took place between 17, using Aquia Creek sandstone painted white. Hoban modelled the building on Leinster House in Dublin, a building which today houses the Oireachtas, the Irish legislature. The residence was designed by Irish-born architect James Hoban in the neoclassical style.
The term "White House" is often used as a metonym for the president and his advisers. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., and has been the residence of every U.S. The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. Center: Executive Residence (1792–1800) with North Portico (1829) facing left: East Wing (1942) right: West Wing (1901), with the Oval Office (1934) at its southeast corner. In the foreground is Pennsylvania Avenue, closed to traffic. Aerial view of the White House complex, from north.
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