Are there any current (up to date) floor plans of the White House?
I’m thinking of building a home that has six floors, seven staircases, 132 rooms, 32 bathrooms, 28 fireplaces, 147 windows, 412 doors and 3 elevators.
The tricky part is building a home that has six floors but appears to only have three. How can I accomplish this?
Really though, I was wondering what the biggest home (residence) in the country was and I stumbled across the White House (55,000 sq ft!!). The original floor plans called for less than 30 rooms. How did they keep the exterior roughly the same yet add 4 floors and 100 rooms without extensive outside work?
Did they dig down and add three basement levels?
Finally, is this information confidential or can someone locate an online floor plan of the White House?
My guess is that there’s more than one basement level. I believe the building was almost totally rebuilt during the Truman administration so the additional floors might have been added then.
You can clearly see the extent of the renovations to the White House in this photo; only the shell of the original building is left. So it’s entirely possible that several basement levels were added then.
Just a note from my experiences with the floor plans of Georgian manor houses–it is possible that they don’t mean six floors piled one on top of another, but six floors at various heights. Perhaps some are a split-level apart from each other, or perhaps some of the levels one sees from the outside are 16 feet tall, and include some 16 foot tall rooms but also some 8 foot tall rooms stacked on top of each other.
I’ve heard that the floorplans for the top floor (where the First Family lives) are kept secret for security reasons. Thus, you’ll probably have to guess about how that’s laid out.
Check out the panoramic tour of the Press Briefing room. Pretty cool. after you start the tour you can place your curser anywhere on the screen and scroll in any direction at any speed. Even zoom. Mrs Rice is sitting on the right side of the room. Tour
The original whitehouse had walls that were several feet thick and completely of brick, interior and exterior, per the history channel they gained DOZENS of rooms just be redoing the house with a steel fram and saving precious sq. feet.
