Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1949 — Page 40

House. And it will cost more $5,417,000 : Back n 1817 when te wie House was rebuilt after the Brit 1sh had burned it, architects rest-! Ho ba weight of a buliding on its i % The floors were hung on thei walls, and the roof was placed on! the walls. The walls carried alll the weight. { Today architects build a steel] skeleton, a kind of box, which carrias the weight of the build-| ing. Floors fill in ‘horizontal between the steel bones. Walls are really brick or stone eurtains around the steel hones. Tt is no discredit to those build-|

“the interior walls of the White, “House have settled badly, that the outer wails have sunk unevenly, | that the stratum of clay on which]

ars crumbling under continued! stress. After all. besides the} time, the White House today is . higher and heavier than when originally built. Remove Interior Walls Barings have shown that 15! feet below the lay on ‘which the

A To ed stratum ol sand a hE | will bear great weight, The present plan is to underpin the foundations of the outer walls down to this level.

interior walls entirely, dig down to the new level, and erect an Interior structural steel frame to £ ‘carry all the weight of the build- ¥ ing, except the weight of its out. . er walls. . Within this steel frame they will construct an entirely new basement. The ground floor will} be entirely replaced. The first floor will be replaced about as it fa. The second floor, which is a © wooden fire-trip today, will be entirely replaced. The third floor,

y New Interior, | Outside Walls, rite House Plan

Engineers Will Modernize e Building

But Preserve lis Historic Aspects By JAMES M. HASWELL, Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Apr. 7--They're going to tear out the insides of the White House, put in a steel skeleton and then build a new ‘interior.

Engineers plan to take out the

: - This will be more trouble than it would to build a new White

The ofisial estimate 1s is

ing the forma) rooms on the first floor “faithful architectural reproductions of the original rooms as to finishes, details, and arrangement,” But other rooms on this floor are to be rebuilt in

| keeping with this plan, not rebuilt

as they are. The grand staircase from the {first to second fioor ‘will be rede‘signed and rebuilt, and the lobby columns will be replaced by other {columns in other locations, The rooms on the second floor “will conform in principal as- | pects” to the present rooms. But “subordinate arrangements may

ithe essentials and conveniences {that contribute to the needs and amenities of modern Hving.”

The finishes will be changed. |

presidential household com-|

ers of 132 years ago that today be employed in order to introduce

they rest is slowly giving way, They will be “consistent with the | that century and a haif old bricks dignity and respect which the

mands.”

“The official plans promise that “the traditional periodicity and| style” of the present White House “orders of design will be perpet-

t-Will be the|

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