Fun White House Facts

Did You Know…?

• The White House has six floors: 2 basements, 2 public floors, and 2 floors for the First Family
• There are 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, 412 doors, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces, 8 staircases, and 3 elevator… now the real question is how many of those toilets are the Intelligence Toilet from Toto Toilets?
• The White House has 5 full-time chefs and is able to serve dinner to as many as 140 guests and hors d’oeuvres to more than 1,000 at any given time.
• The White House receives about 6,000 visitors a day.
• If you were to paint the outside of the White House it would require 570 gallons of paint.
• The White House has a tennis court, jogging track, swimming pool, movie theater, billiard room and… a bowling lane!
• Over the years the White House has been known as the “President’s Palace,” the “President’s House,” and the “Executive Mansion.” President Theodore Roosevelt officially gave the White House its current name in 1901.