White House

The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States.

Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.

Constructed between 1792 and 1800, its exterior walls are Aquia Creek sandstone painted white.

The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States, located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. It has served as the residence of every United States president since John Adams moved in in 1800, when the national capital relocated from Philadelphia. The building's name has also become a metonym for the Executive Office of the President itself.

Constructed between 1792 and 1800, its exterior walls are Aquia Creek sandstone painted white.

Constructed between 1792 and 1800, its exterior walls are Aquia Creek sandstone painted white.

official residence and workplace of the president of the United States

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20500, U.S.

Constructed between 1792 and 1800

The White House stands at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., serving as the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States since John Adams first occupied it in 1800. Designed by the Irish-born architect James Hoban, whose winning entry in a 1792 competition drew on the Neoclassical Georgian style of Irish country houses, the building was constructed of Aquia Creek sandstone that was later painted white, giving the residence its name. British troops set fire to the building during the War of 1812 in 1814, gutting its interior, and Hoban himself oversaw its reconstruction using much of the surviving exterior stone. The building has since been expanded and renovated repeatedly, including the addition of the West Wing and East Wing in the early twentieth century, while its original neoclassical facade has remained a recognizable symbol of the American presidency.