Photos of the White House Gutted During Its Truman Reconstruction
Did you know that the White House was completely gutted and rebuilt on the inside between 1949 and 1952? After decades of poor maintenance, the building was in danger of collapsing in 1948, which forced President Harry Truman to move out and commission a complete gutting and rebuilding of the building's insides.
The U.S. National Archives has been publishing photographs showing the gutted White House to its Flickr photostream.