The America's National Parks Podcast is sponsored by L.L. Bean.

This year, L.L. Bean is joining up with the National Park Foundation,

the official non-profit partner of the National Park Service to help you find your happy place in an amazing system of more than 400 national parks including historic and cultural sites, monuments, preserves, lakeshores, and seashores

that dot the American landscape,

many of which you'll find just a short trip from home.

L.L. Bean is proud to be an official partner of the National Park Foundation.

Discover your perfect day in a park at find your park.com. One of the very symbols of our nation is a residence for our highest elected official,

designed by Irish-born architect James Hoban in the Neoclassical style.

Hoban modeled the building on Leinster House in Dublin, which today houses the Irish

legislature.

Construction took place between 1792 and 1800

using sandstone, painted white.

When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he and architect Benjamin Henry

Latrobe added low colonnades on each wing that concealed stables in storage.

Not long after, the House for our nation's president would almost be obliterated.

Today on America's National Parks, the White House,

part of the National Park Services Presidents Park in Washington, D.C.

With more on the early years of the enduring symbol of the leader of the free world,

here's Rosie Tefiro from the National Park Service. When George Washington picked out the swampy territory on the border of Virginia and Maryland to be the location of his new nation's capital, he couldn't

have known the trouble it would take to reach the point of even being considered a city.

The government had been located in Philadelphia until that point, and in the city was where many wanted to stay.

Indeed, by 1800, Washington, D.C. was little more than a village with some large edifices.

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