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The White House, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., has been the residence and workplace of every U.S. president since John Adams moved in in 1800, and its name also serves as a shorthand for the presidency and the president’s executive staff. Designed by James Hoban in the Neoclassical style, it was built from 1792 to 1800 and became a symbolic center of the new capital. Altered by Jefferson, damaged by British burning in 1814, and repeatedly expanded and rebuilt, it grew with the presidency into a larger complex that remains both a working seat of government and a powerful national symbol.
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