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Jefferson ordered wallpaper and furniture from France. Every president since has ordered special things for the house. Today, you can see chairs that people sat on more than one hundred years ago! During this time, the building was called the President's Palace, and then the President's House. Then James Madison was elected president. During his term of office, the United States went to war with England. It was the War of As the British troops got close to Washington, Madison's wife, Dolley, ordered a carriage to pick her up and take her to safety.
But she would not leave the house until two men agreed to take down the famous portrait of George Washington. The troops set fire to the Capitol Building and the White House. Today, the picture that Dolley saved is the only thing that has been in the White House since it first opened. When the war was over, the house was rebuilt and repainted white to cover the smoke marks. People began to call it the White House.
Copyright Published by Scholastic. For almost years, the White House has stood as a symbol of the Presidency, the United States government, and the American people. Its history and the history of the nation's capital began when President George Washington signed an Act of Congress in December of declaring that the federal government would reside in a district "not exceeding ten miles square.
As preparations began for the new federal city, a competition was held to find a builder for the "President's House. Construction began when the first cornerstone was laid in October of Although President Washington oversaw the construction of the house, he never lived in it.
It was not until , when the White House was nearly completed, that its first residents, President John Adams and his wife Abigail, moved in. Since that time, each President has made his own changes and additions.
The White House is, after all, the President's private home. It is also the only private residence of a head of state that is open to the public free of charge. The White House has a unique and fascinating history. It survived a fire at the hands of the British in during the War of , and another fire in the West Wing in while Herbert Hoover was President.
Throughout much of Harry S. Truman's presidency, the interior of the house was completely gutted and renovated while the Trumans lived at Blair House, right across Pennsylvania Avenue.
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