When did James Monroe move in?
October 1817
Was there still construction going then?
Yes
What is the white house?
Executive ResidenNoce
for?
President James Monroe
Who relocated all offices?
President Theodore Roosevelt
To where?
West Wing
when?
1901
why?
crowding within the executive mansion
When was the west wing expanded?
1909
Who expanded it?
President William Howard Taft
Did he create anything?
he first Oval Office
Who set it ablaze?
British Army
What was destroyed?
the interior
What happened to the exterior?
It was charred.
Where is the white house located?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington DC
What was converted to a living space in 1927?
the third-floor attic
How was this done?
augmenting the existing hip roof
with what?
long shed dormers
What did Truman do?
nterior rooms were completely dismantled