As workers break ground on President Trump’s proposed ballroom, AD takes a look back at the history of physical updates to ...

President Trump’s construction of a grand ballroom attached to the White House — starting with the demolition of part of the ...

Personal tastes of presidents - as well as the demands of a growing federal government - has helped dictate changes over time ...

The most sweeping intervention before Trump’s was the Truman Reconstruction of 1948–1952, a project so ambitious that only ...

After the White House was heavily damaged in the War of 1812, President James Monroe ordered the creation of the South Portico, a semicircular porch with large columns that looked out on the South ...

Under a nearly-60-year-old law, the White House and several other notable buildings are exempt from a key historic ...

President Trump’s renovation of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is far from the first major facelift of the longtime landmark — ...

President Trump's demolition of the White House East Wing to make way for his new ballroom exposed a "loophole" in the nation ...

President Trump announced plans to build a White House ballroom in July marking the first significant renovation to “the ...

The entire East Wing of the White House will be demolished “within days,” according to two Trump administration officials.