Why do they call the white house the white house?

Answer 1

Why is the White House "White"?Many people including at least one encyclopedia have supposed that the White House was painted white in order to cover burn marks left by British troops in 1814.

I just finished a guided tour of the White House today, where it was explained that the exterior walls were constructed of sandstone quarried from Aquia Creek quarry in Stafford VA.

The presidential structure was painted white in 1798, (16 years before the White House was burned) in order to protect the sandstone from damage caused by water and winter freezes.

The name "White House" did not become official until Theodore Roosevelt issued an executive order in 1901, although there are many references to "the White House" that predate the war of 1812.

The British did not burn the White house until 1814 in retaliation for some buildings burned by American troops in Canada during the war of 1812.

Although it was not completed until a few years after the presidency of George Washington, it has been speculated that the "President's Palace", "President's Mansion", or "President's House" as it was originally referred to was named after Martha Washington's father's home "White House Plantation" where the first president and Martha had courted.

Answer 2

The decision to place the White House on land ceded by two slave states to become the District of Columbia -Virginia and Maryland- ultimately influenced the acquisition of laborers to build it. The D.C. commissioners, charged by Congress with building the new capitol city under the direction of the president, initially planned to import workers from Europe to meet their labor needs. However, the response to recruitment was dismal and so they turned to African Americans, both slave and free, to provide most of the labor that built the White House, the United States Capitol, and all the other early government buildings.

Answer 3

When it was first built the walls were not painted so it was the color of its natural stone outer walls, a kind of brownish white. It was whitewashed in 1798 when the walls were all finished, to protect the stone. People started calling it the White House very soon after it was built.

In 1901, then President Roosevelt has the words "White House" printed on his official stationery , which gave the name a new official status. Before it had been called the executive mansion in official papers.

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Answer 4

He didn't. Washington never lived in the house, and it was called the "executive mansion" or "Presidential mansion" when it was first built. It was not until the time of Theodore Roosevelt's term (1901-1909) that the term White House came into common use.

Answer 5

Well, Washington D.C. is the Federal Capital.

Answer 6

because George Washington needed a place to stay and other places were fancy so George Washington made the white house

Answer 7

As it is painted white...:-P

LOL...

Answer 8

because its awesome