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
North Lawn (White House) ("Buxus species"). The pool is planted seasonally with borders of tulips edged by grape hyacinth ("Muscari armeniacum") for spring, red geranium ("Pelargonium") and Dusty Miller ("Senecio cineraria") in summer, and chrysanthemum ("Chrysanthemum cinerariaefolium") in fall. North Lawn (White House) The North Lawn at the White House in Washington, DC, is bordered on the north by Pennsylvania Avenue with a wide view of the mansion, and is screened by dense plantings on the east from East Executive Drive and the Treasury Building, and on the west from West Executive Drive and the Old Executive Office Building. Because it is bordered by