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skiendhu Super Moderator Posts: 2627 Registered: Dec 2004  Posted June 17th, 2006 04:08 PM   IP              A question for our American brethren. Was the whitehouse built by specially imported Scottish stonemasons, and has the whitehouse always been white? S&F Practical experience is the best teacher
Big John Unregistered Posts: Registered:  Posted June 18th, 2006 10:50 AM   IP              Not always it was a bit brown when the Brits burnt it down during the war of 1812.
pfeifco Master Mason Posts: 973 Registered: Apr 2007  Posted May 1st, 2007 04:26 PM   IP              We were always taught in Grade school that it was the Canadian and British troops that envaded Washington in 1814 (war of 1812) that burned the building to just a shell. After that the it was rebuilt and panited white to cover the burn marks. Before the fire I don't think it was called the white house - that is the post ware of 1812 name.
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