[The White House (President's House") Washington D.C. Site plan and principal story plan]" – Historic Reproduction
![[The White House (President's House") Washington D.C. Site plan and principal story plan]", 1807 — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1f/1f0457a89e5d-L.webp)
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A window into the past: [The White House (President's House") Washington D.C. Site plan and principal story plan]", preserved in this historic drawing. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Few early plans of the President's House show its interior as directly as this watercolor and ink drawing, which combines a site plan with the principal floor. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the architect and Surveyor of Public Buildings, made it in 1807 while he was reworking the house during Thomas Jefferson's presidency. Handwritten notes on the sheet label rooms as a "Public Drawing Room," an "antichamber or Pref. Parlor," and a "Common Drawing room," showing Latrobe weighing how the principal rooms should be divided and used. British troops burned the building in 1814, so plans like this one are among the best surviving records of its original arrangement.
| Created / published | 1807 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : watercolor and ink on paper. |
| Subjects | Inscriptions on recto: Plan of the principal Story to be altered." -- "Public Drawing Room." -- "antichamber or Pref. Parlor" -- "Parlor or antichamber" -- "Common Drawing room." Lined with paper; Watermark: T G & Co. Forms part of: Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress)." |
| Original scan | 2,875 × 3,600 px · prints to 10 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175715 |
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