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Article: White House set to celebrate its 200th anniversary.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- October 27, 2000
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WASHINGTON _ On Nov. 1, 1800, John Adams traveled the long road from Philadelphia to the new federal city of Washington, D.C. For the nation's second president, it was moving day.
As he stepped out of his carriage and stood before his new home, then known as the presidential palace, he encountered a half-built structure with scaffolding strewn across the basement floors, walls without plaster and only one of the three staircases built.
Next month, the White House will celebrate its 200th anniversary. During those 200 years, it has been gutted by fire, rebuilt, renovated and expanded.
Forty-one presidents and their families have taken a turn in ...