why is the white house only colored white? and why is it called white house?

Question

Why didn't they color it with many colors and called it the american house or the supreme house, why only the color white? why not black and white and other colors?

Answer 1

It was originally painted with white wash to protect the stone from water and ice damage. White wash was the cheapest durable coating they had back then for outdoor use.

As early as 1812 it became informally known as "the white house". After that it became a tradition and nobody wanted to change it. Teddy Roosevelt made the name "white house" official in 1901 and nobody is going to chance it now.

http://www.whitehousehistory.org/06/subs/06_a01.html

Answer 2

The building was originally referred to variously as the "President's Palace", "Presidential Mansion", or "President's House".[12] The earliest evidence of the public calling it the "White House" was recorded in 1811.[13] A legend emerged that during the rebuilding of the structure white paint was applied to mask the burn damage it had suffered, giving the building its namesake hue; this is unfounded as the building had been painted white since its construction in 1798. The name "Executive Mansion" was used in official contexts until President Theodore Roosevelt established the formal name by having the de facto name "White House–Washington" engraved on the stationery in 1901.[14][15] The current letterhead wording and arrangement "The White House" with the word "Washington" centered beneath goes back to the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.[15] Although it was not built until some years after the presidency of George Washington, it is also speculated that the name of the traditional home of the President of the United States may have derived from Martha Custis Washington's home, White House Plantation in New Kent County, Virginia, where the nation's first President and First Lady had courted in the mid-18th century.[16]

Answer 3

They caught a sale on white paint when they first built it and the tradition started.

Answer 4

You aren't one of those rainbow coalition types are you?
The supreme house? Maybe you are really Kim Jong il???

Answer 5

probably something to do with purity and symbolism.

Answer 6

Give it time my friend , ,,give it time.