Top ten interesting facts to know about White House
New Delhi: The White House is the symbol of power of the World's most powerful nation. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.The house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban and
New Delhi: The White House is the symbol of power of the World's most powerful nation. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.
The house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban and was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia Creek sandstone in the Neoclassical style.
Here are ten interesting facts to know about this building of America's pride:
570-gallons of paint cover the outside of the White House, which cost taxpayers $283,000 to paint in 1994. The stone walls are still the same ones built under President Thomas Jefferson.
The White House has a total of 132 rooms. This includes: 35 bathrooms, 412 doors, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces, 8 staircases, and 3 elevators.
The White House measures at 55,000-square feet, 70-feet high, 170-feet wide, and 85-feet deep. It is situated on 18 acres.
President George Washington commissioned that sandstone from the quarries of Aquia Creek in Stafford County, VA, be used to build the White House and other notable DC buildings, including the Capitol.
The White House is the only private residence of a head of state that is open to the public, free of charge.
During President Andrew Jackson's open house inauguration in 1829 (illustration above), a horde of 20,000 celebrants forced President Jackson to flee to a nearby hotel while his aides filled washtubs with orange juice and whiskey to lure the mob out of the overrun White House and onto the lawn.