Inside History of the White House - The Complete History of the Domestic and Official Life in Washington of the Nation's Presidents and Their Families #261019

White House, at Washington, as the official home of the President of the United States. President John Adams, having taken possession of the newly-built President's House in November of 1800, held a public reception on the first day of January following, and thus on New Year's Day of 1801 occurred the official housewarming of this now most historic and most important dwelling in the land of the patriots who fought for and won the privilege of erecting it as a home for their own independent ruler. On the fourth of March next, Theodore Roosevelt will bid farewell to the White House, and his successor will take his place within those walls as the twenty-seventh President of the United States.