The US flag can almost always be seen waving up high at the White House, the primary workplace and official residence of the President of the US. An Irish named James Hoban was the designer of the edifice situated in Washington, D.C. As a Neoclassical architecture, the house was made up of Aquia sandstone painted in white. Since John Adams was in office, it has been the home of all US presidents. After Thomas Jefferson became the president in 1801, the house was lengthened outward with the help of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, an architect, constructing two rows of pillars that are intended to hide storage and stables.

In 1814, at some point in the War of 1812, the British Army put the house on fire in the Burning of Washington, wrecking the inside