The White House stripped of its white paint, showing how the home looked when it was first built.
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The dingy house
Actually like it better without the white paint.
I like it better this way.
When was this photo taken? Are they doing restoration on it?
It looks sweet like that, the paint takes away from the quality of the stonework
I don’t know why I thought there was wood.
Why the White House is [white](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House#:~:text=When%20construction%20was%20finished%2C%20the%20porous%20sandstone%20walls%20were%20whitewashed%20with%20a%20mixture%20of%20lime%2C%20rice%20glue%2C%20casein%2C%20and%20lead%2C%20giving%20the%20house%20its%20familiar%20color%20and%20name.%5B27%5D)
The Beige House just doesn’t have the same ring.
When it was first built it didn’t have that entire portico. The White House was actually relatively small when first built. Additions have been made throughout the ages to accommodate the expanding executive branch. I think it was Truman who didn’t even get to stay there because of the massive renovations made to it.
Original white house burned down, right. That whole Dolly Madison story and what not…
TIL: the white house is made of stone
Interestingly the home of the UK’s prime minister is also made of a similar yellow colour, but in brick, but rather than white, it is painted black. Years of soot made the brickwork black, when they cleaned it in the 1950s people were not used to the honey colour of the brick so it was painted black.
[Downing Street in its famous black, notice the mortar is also black because it has been painted](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b9c36efe005a964f0da4d911aca7b7b6060d4617/0_78_3872_2324/master/3872.jpg?width=465&quality=85&dpr=1&s=none)
[here you can see the yellow coming through where paint is aging](https://l450v.alamy.com/450v/an0f7w/uk-london-whitehall-number-11-downing-street-home-of-british-chancellor-an0f7w.jpg)
[the colour that Downing Street should be](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-c38b9aa28aa73a7571e4e2a460cd9c68-lq)
Black people built it
I thought it would have more scorch marks since the Canadians burnt it twice when the yanks got uppity with them.
The house
White one looks cheap af
“Home”
“The White House is made of gray-colored sandstone from a quarry in Aquia, Virginia. The north and south porticos are constructed with red Seneca sandstone from Maryland. The sandstone walls weren’t painted white until the White House was reconstructed after the British fires.”
it was a rather pink house
Looks better like this IMO
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/collections/president-trumans-renovation#:~:text=Truman%2C%20the%20White%20House%20underwent,a%20remarkable%20feat%20of%20engineering.
Check out the 1948 gut renovation.
Joe Biden did this /s
Looks like a Star Wars walker.
how does one strip the paint from the White House?
Dude wtf put it back
Neat
I would love to know more about the “sub-basement” :-).
This looks better
Canadian here. Honest question: what was it called before it was painted white?
Columns! Turn any hovel into a palace!
Beautiful. Looks like the Greeks or Romans built it.
The off-white house
Restored to its former glory.
The House
Oo baby I like it raw