Photo, Print, Drawing White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC Photos from Survey HABS DC-37

Title

• White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Other Title

• White House (President's Park) The Executive Mansion

Names

• Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
• Hoban, James
• McKim, Mead & White
• Latrobe, Benjamin
• Price, Virginia Barrett, transmitter
• Hall, Scott D., delineator
• Buehner, Timothy A., project manager
• Beckman, Kristin A., delineator
• Winkert, Daniel R., delineator
• Hughes, Hugh D., delineator
• Schmidt, Eric, delineator
• Yang, Isabel C., project manager
• Minotti, Krista A., delineator
• Pederson, Brian F., delineator
• Lanzillotta, Mary-Katherine, delineator
• Brannan, Michael E., project manager
• Lindstrom, Frederick J., project manager
• Coleman, Crystal, delineator
• Ventrone, Richard A., delineator
• Anderson, Douglas S., delineator
• Guthrie, Patrick B., delineator
• Homeyer, Paul G., delineator
• Lewis, Gilian B., delineator
• Martin, Kenneth W., delineator
• McBroom, Scot C., delineator
• Rheams, Mellonee, delineator
• Wiencek, R. Matthew, Jr., delineator
• Martinez, Jose R., volunteer
• Arzola, Robert R., project manager
• Boucher, Jack E., photographer
• Burns, Albert S., photographer
• Null, Druscilla J., historian

Created / Published

• Documentation compiled after 1933

Headings

• -  official residences
• -  mansions
• -  Greek cross-plan buildings
• -  U.S. Presidents
• -  District Of Columbia--District Of Columbia--Washington

Latitude / Longitude

• 38.89766,-77.036546

Notes

• -  For related documentation, see also White House Grounds & Ellipse (HABS DC-689) and Andrew Jackson Southern Magnolia (HALS DC-14).
• -  44 of the 85 final ink and Mylar drawings were removed for national security purposes, therefore these 44 original drawings are not at the Library of Congress. To inquire further, contact the National Park Service Liaison to the White House at The White House and President's Park. For contact information (as of 2024), see: https://www.nps.gov/whho/learn/management/staffandoffices.htm
• -  Significance: Home of the President of the United States, the White House has come to be a symbol of American government. Architecturally, it is a fine example of the Federal/Greek Revival styles.
• -  Survey number: HABS DC-37
• -  Building/structure dates: 1792- 1810 Initial Construction
• -  Building/structure dates: 1814- 1817 Subsequent Work
• -  Building/structure dates: 1824- 1829 Subsequent Work
• -  Building/structure dates: 1902 Subsequent Work
• -  Building/structure dates: 1948-1952 Subsequent Work

Medium

• Photo(s): 599
• Color Transparencies: 3
• Measured Drawing(s): 41
• Data Page(s): 8
• Photo Caption Page(s): 35

Call Number/Physical Location

• HABS DC,WASH,134-

Source Collection

• Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository

• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Control Number

• dc0402

Rights Advisory

• No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

Online Format

• image
• pdf