it shows jimmy carter's purple magnolia. see how big it's gotten, how long it's been since jimmy carter. but that was his purple magnolia. the building itself is stone. it's aquia creek sandstone, which is a terrible material, but it was close by. it was called free stone in its day. and the commission that built the house in the 1790s looked everywhere for stone. washington wanted a stone house. and he insisted on the stone house. well, they could only judge a quarry by sounding with a steel rod in those days or iron rod. they didn't have what we have today. so the commissioners thought they were going to run out of stone. and it is a light kind of batter-colored stone. and president carter instituted a cleaning of the house, of the walls because the paint wouldn't stay on them, and 20 years later, it was finished in the clinton administration. it went on and on and on. but during that time, i had the privilege, i guess, of taking a garden hose and shooting it at one of the cleaned walls, and the water just went down in the

that was his purple magnolia. washington wanted a stone house. they could only judge a quarry by sounding a steel rod. they didn't have what we have today. the water went into the stone like a sponge. it had to be painted. it was built by scotts in the highlands. we know a lot about them. they had all work directly for the adam brothers and in the style that washington didn't want any of that. it was very out of style for the builders. their custom was to wash buildings when they finished them. the wash got into the nooks and cran crannies. when there was a freeze the holes wouldn't hold water. it got painted by lincoln's time. there were 30 some odd coats of paint on the white house. grounds of the white house were 18 acres and it had been intended to be 85. jefferson cut it down to 15 and it is 18 today.sísí it was there from buchanan to sí after lincoln.szczsz thesz grant administration was there and they tore it down because it wouldn't work. and the one we saw was there. they still function. although they are electric powered now. the south