Public Entrance and South Front of White House, Washington D.C. - Vintage 1930s Postcard picturesque_home The top of the arch

The top of the arch is 149 feet above the surface of the lake

Alexandria

Alabama with a green one cent George Washington stamp

Front: New Auditorium and Wesley Temple Building

Front: Ancestral Home of President James Knox Polk

Public Entrance and South Front of White House, Washington D.C. - Vintage 1930s Postcard picturesque_home The top of the archPublic Entrance and South Front of White House, Washington, D. C. The White House, the home of the President of the United States is a substantial classic structure of Virginia free stone 170x86 feet. George Washington selected the site and laid the cornerstone in 1792. The first President to occupy it was Jno. Adams in 1800. It was burned by the British in 1814 during President Madison's administration, who occupied Octagon House, 18th and N. Y.