Our first president, George Washington, selected the site for the White House in 1791. After eight years of construction, President John Adams and his wife, Abigail, moved into the unfinished house in 1800. During the War of 1812, the British set fire to the President’s House in 1814.
In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt began a major renovation of the White House, including the relocation of the president’s offices from the Second Floor of the Residence to the newly constructed temporary Executive Office.
Less than fifty years after the Roosevelt renovation, the White House was showing signs of serious structural weakness. President Harry S. Truman began a renovation of the building in which everything but the outer walls were dismantled.
- From “Inside the White House,” whitehouse.com.
The first President to live in what is now the White House was
Responses
A John Adams.
B Harry Truman
C George Washington
D Theodore Roosevelt.
