WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.

• Author: Horstman, Neil
• Position: Brief Article

White House Historical Association 740 Jackson Place, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20503

Dear Educator:

The White House Historical Association is pleased to join Scholastic Classroom Magazines in a national celebration of the White House. Two hundred years ago, John Adams became the first President to occupy the White House. Ever since, America's chief executive has lived at the stately residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, establishing the White House as an enduring symbol of democracy and leadership.

On November 1, 1800, Adams settled into "The President's House." Many of the rooms were yet unfinished. The same could be said of the new national capital of Washington. But America's second President was hopeful. From his temporary home, he wrote: "I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but...