"White House" is certainly well known to everyone, this is the official residence of successive Us presidents, the center of American power, but you may not know that the original "White House" was not called this name, and it was not originally white, let's see where "White House" came from.
White House building drawings
The White House, also known as the White House, is the official residence and office of the President of the United States. The White House is owned by the U.S. National Park Service and is part of "President's Park." The White House is a white neoclassical sandstone building located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, northwest of Washington. The White House covers an area of more than 73,000 square meters and consists of the main building and the east and west wings. The White House is the place where the President of the United States lives and works, and it was not called the White House for a long time, but was called the "President's Building" and "The President's Palace".
The early appearance of the White House
The first president, George Washington, chose the location of the White House in 1791. It was designed and begun in 1792 by Irish-born architect James Hoban. Unfortunately, However, President George Washington did not stay in the White House, because the White House was completed in 1800, and George Washington voluntarily relinquished power in March 1797 after two terms, and George Washington died of illness in late 1799. So after eight years of construction, the White House ushered in its first owner, the second president of the United States, John Adams, and the White House was not white at that time, but a gray sandstone building.
Burning the White House
However, in 1812, the United Kingdom and the United States in the Second American War of Independence, in 1814 after the British army occupied washington city, the British army and the Canadian militia into the then U.S. presidential palace, as a retaliation for the U.S. army to burn the York Fortress, they set fire to the U.S. president's residence, behind, the United States and Britain were evenly matched, reached an armistice, Washington returned to the United States. Later, in order to cover up the traces of the fire, the post-war reconstruction was to cover up the traces of the fire, and when it was rebuilt, President Monroe ordered a layer of white paint on the gray sandstone. In 1902, the 26th U.S. president, Theodore Roosevelt, officially named it the "White House," which later became synonymous with the U.S. government.