- Ornamental iron fences surround the structure and running water is piped into the house.
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- Andrew Jackson creates the White House orangery and adds more trees, including the famous Jackson magnolia.
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Workers pause for a chat about 1875 with Jackson Magnolia in the distance
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- Earliest Photograph of the White House taken by John Plumbe Jr. The photograph is a Daguerreotype.
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Earliest Photo of White House
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- President James Polk installs gas lights.
- Polk places a statue of Thomas Jefferson on the North Lawn.
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- Abigail Fillmore, a retired school teacher, makes the second floor Oval Room the first White House library.
- The noted landscape gardener Andrew Jackson Downing develops a landscape plan for the President's House and the Mall.
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- President Franklin Pierce installs central heating.
- Clark Mills's equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson is unveiled in the center of Lafayette Park.
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