America’s National Parks Podcast

A White House Burns

01.11.2019 - By RV Miles NetworkPlay

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One of the very symbols of our nation is a residence for our highest elected official, designed by Irish-born architect James Hoban in the neoclassical style, using sandstone painted white. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe added low colonnades on each wing that concealed stables and storage. Not long after, the house for our Nation's president would almost be obliterated.

Today on America's National Parks, The White House, part of the National Park Service's Presidents Park, in Washington DC.

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