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Really happy to have you here this President's Day.

Happy President's Day.

The first U.S.

president to live in the White House was the second U.S.

president.

It was John Adams.

John Adams moved into the White House in November of the year 1800.

Before that, while he was president, but before he moved into the White House, before the White House was complete, John Adams lived in Philly.

Both John Adams, the nation's second president, and George Washington, the nation's first president, they both lived in Philadelphia in the 1790s while the US Capitol and the White House were being built in DC.

And that house in Philadelphia, where both George Washington and John Adams lived while they each served as president,

That house has a really interesting story.

Accidentally, the last remaining walls of that house were by accident torn down in the 1950s.

That was the last standing portion of the house.

It was accidentally demolished in the 1950s.

Decades later, once archaeologists and historians figured out for sure where that president's house had been,

The city got involved.