Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The White House ruins after the fire of August 24, 1814, depicted in a watercolor painting by George Munger, is now on display at the White House Major General Robert Ross, the British commander who led the burning of Washington. After burning the Capitol, the British turned northwest up Pennsylvania Avenue toward the White House
On December 24, 1929, the West Wing was significantly damaged by an electrical fire. [2] This four-alarm fire was the most destructive to strike the White House since the Burning of Washington 115 years earlier. One hundred and thirty firefighters, over nineteen engine companies, and four truck companies were needed to extinguish the blaze.
The White House Reconstruction, also known as the Truman Reconstruction, was a comprehensive dismantling and rebuilding of the interior of the White House from 1949 to 1952. A century and a half of wartime destruction and rebuilding, hurried renovations, additions of new services, technologies, the added third floor and inadequate foundations ...
May 29. Protest at 14th and U Street NW on May 29. The White House was on lockdown the night of May 29 in response to protests reaching the gates. [2] The protests began at 7:00 p.m. By 8:30 p.m., the White House lockdown was lifted as demonstrators began to leave. At 10:00 p.m., the protesters returned, however by 3:30 am Saturday they were ...
During the War of 1812, President James Madison and the government fled Washington, D.C., ahead of invading British troops, who set fire to the White House during their sacking of the capital on ...
The White House is scrambling to clean up the political mess created by a New York Times Magazine profile of President Barack Obama's deputy national-security adviser, Ben Rhodes, who offered ...
He was subsequently arrested. [64] March 15, 1985 – Chester Ramsey, was caught and arrested by Secret Service agents while trying to climb over the fence. [65] October 29, 1994 – Francisco Martin Duran, took a semi-automatic rifle and fired 29 rounds at the White House before being tackled to the ground and arrested.
The White House ruins after the fire of August 24, 1814 Jefferson and Latrobe's West Wing Colonnade, in this 19th-century engraved view, is now the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room. On Saturday, November 1, 1800, John Adams became the first president to take residence in the building. [27]