White House

The White House is the official home of the president of the United States, it was first inhabited by John Adams, the second president of the U.S. The structure is built of aqueous sandstone mined from a tributary of the Potomac River. It is painted white as rumor says it's to cover up burn marks from the War of 1812 when the British burned it.

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The White House is featured in Take Me to Your Leader.

It was introduced in 1 day after people when the home of the most powerful man in the world stands unguarded. The episode stated that it was originally known as the President's Palace or the President's House until 1901 when Theodore Roosevelt made a long-standing nickname official when he added the words White House to the presidential letterhead. The white walls will last for a very long time but not their distinctive color because the walls are made from Aquia sandstone, prized for its toughness and was quarried along a tributary of the nearby Potomac River, which was also used to construct the United States Capitol. Steven S. Ross stated that the White House façade is not all smooth because it is sandstone and it is not all white, but is naturally greyish and the reason why the White House is white because legend has it that after the British set fire to the house during the War of 1812, it was painted white to cover up the burn marks but in truth, after the walls were first completed in 1798, workers applied coats of lime based whitewash to seal the rough stone and later, white paint was applied to be a more effective barrier against moisture. By the late 20th century, the sandstone walls were regularly repainted with each time requiring 570 gallons of white paint and if the walls are well protected, the windows are impenetrable like the Oval Office, which was fitted with bulletproof glass that was first installed in 1941 because of the hysteria following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The bulletproof glass will keep nature out but there's an intruder in the Oval Office, because Bo, the president's dog, has crossed to the West Wing and must soon escape the White House.

WHNoTiger — The White House after 20 years.

In 20 years after people, the White House has returned to its original color being grey and birds are the new unelected residents but the house itself is holding up well and it's future might have been more bleak if it wasn't for a renovation in the mid-20th century. Tanya Komas explains that the wood had been rotting, people had been drilling through the beams to add conduit for pipes and electricity, and over time it was determined that it needed to be almost entirely reconstructed. Travis Taylor stated that when Truman was President, they had to move out of the White House because it was becoming dangerous. However, it turned out that leaving the White House set up an even more dangerous situation for the president. During the 4 year renovation, Truman lived across the street in Blair House which is normally a guest house for visiting heads of state and on November 1, 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to assassinate him which cause a gunfight to broke out on the steps, killing a White House policeman and one of the world-be assassins while Truman was unharmed. The renovation is completed in 1952 and it gave the White House a new 25 foot deep foundation which supports the interior steel frame walls. The mansion's exterior walls on the other hand have a less certain future because the local sandstone turned out to be not as tough as the original builders believed because in 1814, the White House was gutted in a fire set by British troops and while the walls were still standing, the workers sent in to repair the house discovered that moisture had been penetrating the stone for years causing extensive damage causing to make marble and granite to be the stones of choice for the capital's monumental buildings. The sandstone is exposed to moisture over long periods of time, the surface of the White House walls can turn to mud and it's already happening after 20 years as the White House grounds are returning to the watery wetlands like it were before the first colonists arrived.

WhiteHouseRoof — The roof of the White House have fallen.

Its fate is revealed in 175 years after people when years of neglect has left the White House to look anything but presidential. and although the walls are intact, parts of the roof have fallen and nothing can stand up to what's happening in Washington D.C.. Travis Taylor stated that in 2006 to 2007, a study from the Army Corps of Engineers on the area around the White House and the Capitol Mall reveals that the levees are inadequate to prevent the flooding of the area and the White House sits right in the middle of the 100 year floodplain. Steven S Ross stated that even though it is on a little hill, the sub-basement goes 25 feet below and the sewer lines back down to the mall have to cover the slope and as the water rises, the sewer lines would fill with water and overflow right into the sub-basement. The sandstone [surface] of the White House is degrading to mud and the home of every president since John Adams slides to the swampland as the North Portico first collapses into the watery grave.