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
Pennsylvania Avenue Line (Washington, D.C.) cars, and cars of other lines that ran to Georgetown, being routed via Pennsylvania Avenue between Georgetown and the White House. Other lines, such as the Columbia Line between the White House and Kenilworth, were extended over the Pennsylvania Avenue Line. When numbers were assigned to the car routes in 1936, the following regular routes used the Pennsylvania Avenue Line: In addition, Route 92 served the line on Eighth Street Southeast to the Navy Yard via the Florida Avenue Line, but did not use Pennsylvania Avenue. Thus Pennsylvania Avenue Line streetcars (Route 30) were discontinued on January 3, 1960, and