<P> Jefferson and Latrobe's West Wing Colonnade, in this nineteenth - century engraved view, is now the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room . </P> <Li> <P> Principal story plan for the white house by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1807 . </P> </Li> <P> Principal story plan for the white house by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1807 . </P> <Li> <P> Earliest known photograph of the White House, taken c. 1846 by John Plumbe during the administration of James K. Polk . </P> </Li>

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