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Case History: The White House Visitors Entrance
The new Visitors Entrance at the White House looks like a limestone Palladian garden pavilion with tall French windows separated by Jeffersonian columns and ashlar pier blocks. Built in 1983, the new security building houses the magnetometers which are used to check as many as 8,000 visitors per day. The pavilion is situated directly opposite the Department of the Treasury Building on East Executive Drive and is built into a heavily planted earth berm so that it is visible only from the street. The building is clad entirely with Cast Stone selected to match the limestone facade of the Treasury Building and consists of ashlar blocks, pilaster blocks, columns and a band of stone completely encircling the roof line comprising the frieze, cornice, parapet and coping. |
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