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President's House, after its destruction by the British – Historic Print

President's House, after its destruction by the British — historic image
President's House, after its destruction by the British. Historic image from the White House collection.

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A window into the past: President's House, after its destruction by the British, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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President's House, after its destruction by the British

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Few views show the White House at its lowest point as plainly as this one, the President's House after British troops set it on fire in August 1814. Soldiers under Major General Robert Ross entered Washington after the Battle of Bladensburg and burned the executive mansion and other public buildings in retaliation for earlier American raids in Canada. The interior was gutted, but the sandstone walls largely survived, and James Hoban, the Irish-born architect who had designed the house, oversaw its rebuilding over the following years. The scorched exterior was later covered with white paint, a step often linked to the building's familiar name.

Original scan5,002 × 3,963 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi
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