White House White House The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. and has been the residence of every U.S. President since John Adams in 1800. The term, "White House", is often used as a metonym for the president and his advisers. The residence was designed by Irish-born architect James Hoban in the neoclassical style. Hoban modelled the building on Leinster House in Dublin, a building which today houses the Oireachtas, the Irish legislature. Construction took place between 1792 and 1800 using Aquia
House at 736 Palisado Avenue House at 736 Palisado Avenue 736 Palisado Avenue is one of a small number of Second Empire houses in Windsor, Connecticut. Built about 1865, it is a distinctive surviving example of the style in brick, with a mansard roof and turret. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Palisado Avenue, designated Connecticut Route 159, is the principal north-south route through Windsor, roughly paralleling the Connecticut River which forms the town's eastern border. Number 736 is on the east side of the road, a short way south of the Oliver Ellsworth Homestead, on a property that