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Replicas of the White House are reproductions of the home of the president of the United States, the White House. Notable examples include: Atlanta, Georgia: A 16,500-square-foot (1,530 m 2) model exists. It was built in 2001 by Atlanta home builder Fred Milani, an American citizen born in Iran. [1] [2] [3] [4]
[1]: 178 The Gardiner Baker copy (now at the White House) is presumed to have been the copy commissioned by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney in September 1796, likely as a diplomatic gift to France. [c] Pinckney paid for but never retrieved his copy of the portrait from Stuart's studio, and the artist seems to have resold it to Baker by December 1797.
The Western White House, a neoclassical Georgian Colonial in the San Francisco Bay Area, has sold for $23 million, according to Compass real estate. Alex Buljan of Compass closed the deal Wednesday.
The Miniature White House is a detailed miniature replica of the White House created by miniaturists John and Jan Zweifel. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is kept at the Zweifels' Presidents Hall of Fame in Clermont, Florida , though portions of it are often displayed elsewhere, including at presidential libraries .
Elsewhere in the tour, a new 3D model of the White House’s 18-acre complex is on display alongside four other models that portray the White House as it evolved from 1792 to today.
The desk was removed from the White House after the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, and went on a traveling exhibition with artifacts of the Kennedy Presidential Library. President Jimmy Carter brought the desk back to the White House in 1977, where it has remained since. Many replicas have been made of the Resolute desk.
The White House was wired for electricity in September 1891, but like a lot of people, Benjamin and Caroline Harrison weren't convinced that the electric lights were safe and refused to operate ...
White House employees and slaves rescued a copy of the Lansdowne portrait, and in 1939 a Canadian man returned a jewelry box to President Franklin Roosevelt, claiming that his grandfather had taken it from Washington; in the same year, a medicine chest that had belonged to President Madison was returned by the descendants of a Royal Navy officer.