The White House is the seat of the Presidential Palace of the United States, located at Pennsylvania Avenue 1600 in central Washington, DC. This is an ingenious building, which was built in 1792 and completed in 1800. It is designed in the style of English country house ending in 18. It is all made of limestone and painted with white paint, so it is called the White House.
18 14, the white house was burned by the British army, which caused great losses. Since then, it has been built and expanded many times, and finally it has formed its present scale after a major transformation in 1950.
The White House covers an area of 73,000 square meters. The main building is 26 meters high and 52 meters wide. It has three floors, the east wing and the west wing. Rooms/kloc-more than 0/30 rooms.
There are diplomatic reception hall, library, porcelain hall, treasure hall and White House manager's office on the ground floor. The diplomatic reception hall is the place where the president receives foreign heads of state and envoys. The furnishings are expensive and gorgeous, and there are many antiques. There is a circular oil painting painted by 1834 in the hall, which depicts American scenery. The library has more than 2,000 books, various versions of modern atlases and a precious map drawn in18th century. The gold and silver hall displays all kinds of exquisite British and French gold-plated silver tableware and gold and silver inlaid utensils. The Porcelain Museum collects porcelain tableware used by successive presidents, including a set of porcelain imported from China.
North of the first floor of the main building is the main entrance of the White House. After entering the door is the marble hall, followed by the East Hall, the Green Hall, the Blue Hall, the Red Hall and the State Banquet Hall.
The second floor of the main building is the residence of the President's family, which mainly includes Lincoln bedroom, Queen bedroom, treaty room, map room and yellow oval room in the living room of the President's wife.
The West Wing of the White House was presided over by President theodore roosevelt and built at 1902. The East Wing chaired by President franklin roosevelt was built in 194 1.
Right in front of the diplomatic reception hall on the ground floor of the White House is the famous South Lawn. The White House faces south, so it is also the backyard of the White House, commonly known as the Presidential Garden. A formal welcoming ceremony was held on the South Lawn when the State Guest visited. Every Easter in spring, the President and his wife hold a garden party here as usual. This White House tradition has a history of more than 65,438+000 years.
The White House is open to the public every Tuesday to Saturday. Although there are only 10 rooms for tourists to visit, it is, after all, the only official residence of a head of state in the world that is open to the public regularly, with 2 million visitors every year.