Cleveland Morning Leader

Sixty-two years ago, in November, 1800, President Adams and his family came on from Philadelphia, and occupied the White House, which had not then received its name, the light gray free-stone of which it is built not having been painted until after the interior had been burned by the British. When Mrs. Adams moved in, the house was not finished, and in her letters she gave amusing descriptions of the discomforts to which she was subjected. The east room was used by her laundry maids to hang their clothes up to dry on lines stretched across it. The main staircase was not erected, and during the residence of the Adamses there, until they vacated the house for President Jefferson, they only used two rooms on the lower floor, and six chambers.—Boston Journal.