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Image Title: The White House (President's House) Washington, D.C. Principal Story, Measured Floor Plan, 1803

Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect

Date: 1803,1807.

Notes: Inscriptions on recto: "Plan of the Principal Story in 1803"; "The surrounding Ground was chiefly used for Brick yards, it was enclosed in a rough post and rail fence (1803)"; "During the short residence of President Adams at Washington, the wooden stairs & platform were the usual entrance to the house, and the present drawing room was a mere vestibule"; and "BHenry Latrobe SPBUS 1807." Individual rooms are labeled, clockwise from upper left: "Public dining room"; "Porters Lodge"; "Pr[ivate] stairs"; "Hall"; "Staircase"; "Public audience chamber, entirely unfinished, the cieling [sic] has given way"; "Common dining room"; "Drawing room"; "Presidents' antechamber"; "Library and Cabinet"; "This staircase is not yet put up (1803)."

Original Media: Drawing

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