Did You Know? Fact About The White House
Did you know? 👀 In 1949, the White House had to be gutted and redone due to the building being unsafe to inhabit. 🏠 Decades of neglect and bold additions like a fourth-storey attic and a second-floor balcony over the south portico pushed the White House to its limits. The extent of the damage became clear when Margaret Truman’s piano leg fell through her bedroom floor, a moment proving that the structure was far weaker than anyone had realised. 🎹
Engineers found that the brick and sandstone shell was barely holding together around its ageing timber frame; they joked that the house was still standing only “out of habit.” 👷By 1948, the White House was officially declared at risk of collapse. 🧱
As this was during the Truman era, the Trumans had to evacuate and move across the street to Blair House while the entire White House interior was rebuilt from 1949 to 1951. This was a massive project, but it saved the historic home. 🌟🖼️
Would you feel safe living in an old building like the White House? 🏢