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I just finished a guided tour of the White House today, where it was explained that the exterior walls were constructed of sandstone quarried from Aquia Creek quarry in Stafford VA.
The presidential structure was painted white in 1798, (16 years before the White House was burned) in order to protect the sandstone from damage caused by water and winter freezes.
The name "White House" did not become official until Theodore Roosevelt issued an executive order in 1901, although there are many references to "the White House" that predate the war of 1812.
The British did not burn the White house until 1814 in retaliation for some buildings burned by American troops in Canada during the war of 1812.
Although it was not completed until a few years after the presidency of George Washington, it has been speculated that the "President's Palace", "President's Mansion", or "President's House" as it was originally referred to was named after Martha Washington's father's home "White House Plantation" where the first president and Martha had courted.
The decision to place the White House on land ceded by two slave states to become the District of Columbia -Virginia and Maryland- ultimately influenced the acquisition of laborers to build it. The D.C. commissioners, charged by Congress with building the new capitol city under the direction of the president, initially planned to import workers from Europe to meet their labor needs. However, the response to recruitment was dismal and so they turned to African Americans, both slave and free, to provide most of the labor that built the White House, the United States Capitol, and all the other early government buildings.
When it was first built the walls were not painted so it was the color of its natural stone outer walls, a kind of brownish white. It was whitewashed in 1798 when the walls were all finished, to protect the stone. People started calling it the White House very soon after it was built.
In 1901, then President Roosevelt has the words "White House" printed on his official stationery , which gave the name a new official status. Before it had been called the executive mansion in official papers.
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He didn't. Washington never lived in the house, and it was called the "executive mansion" or "Presidential mansion" when it was first built. It was not until the time of Theodore Roosevelt's term (1901-1909) that the term White House came into common use.
because George Washington needed a place to stay and other places were fancy so George Washington made the white house
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Why do they call it the White House?
Because it's white
How do you get Publishers Clearing House on the phone?
Call the White House.
What year was the White House known as The White House?
Oct 12, 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt decided to call it "The White House".
When the white house was first call the white house?
It was called the White House after the British burned it in the War of 1812, and the rebuilt it. They painted it white to cover the burn marks, and so people started calling it the white house.
What do you call it when you live in the White House?
That means you are the president
What do Americans call the home of the president?
The White House
Why do the call the pastor wife first lady?
ignorance. God's house is not the White House.
What building do the American presidents call home?
The White House.
The building American presidents call home?
white house
Do you believe they call it the white house because their are white people in it?
of course, that's why Obama lives there
Can you call White House as white as the president is Barack Obama?
The white house is white simply because that is its color alone, and makes no difference as to what shade, race, or heritage the president of the US is.
What is the Secret Service code name for the White House?
Castle White House Communications Agency issues call signs for USSS use
