Transcription: John Adams was the first president to occupy the White House. That was in 1800, and the building was called the President's House or the President's Mansion. Along with other government buildings, the White House too was burned during the War of 1812. It was left a shattered shell scorched and scarred by the fire. The mansion was rebuilt with within its original walls to look exactly as it had before. In this historic photograph of a White House party in the 1840s, the blurred figure second from the right is Dolly Madison, whose husband was president when the capital city was burned. The White ...
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