The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The walls are glass, so you can see every floor at once. Hover a room to name it; click it to learn its story.

• 1792: cornerstone laid. Irish-born architect James Hoban won the design contest.
• 1800: John Adams moves in, the first president to live here.
• 1814: British troops burn it. Only the stone walls survive; Hoban rebuilds by 1817.
• 1902: Theodore Roosevelt adds the West Wing. 1927: a third floor goes on.
• 1949–52: Truman guts the failing interior and rebuilds it in steel, inside the old walls.
• 2025: the East Wing is torn down for a ballroom, still under construction.