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President's Park in downtown Washington, D.C., centers on the White House and includes its grounds, Lafayette Square, the Ellipse, the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the Treasury Building, and the White House Visitor Center. Its history reaches back to the founding of the federal capital, when James Hoban's design was selected for the President's House and the White House became the focus of the new city in 1800. Over time, its landscape expanded and changed dramatically. Lafayette Square and the Ellipse served many civic and military uses, from encampments to protest and celebration, making the area both the symbolic setting of the presidency and a deeply layered public space.
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