HOME: The general election will determine who will be moving into the White House next year. Who was the first?

History.com tells us more about the home of America’s presidents.

“On November 1, 1800, President John Adams, in the last year of his only term as president, moved into the newly constructed President’s House, the original name for what is known today as the White House.

“Adams had been living in temporary digs at Tunnicliffe’s City Hotel near the half-finished Capitol building since June 1800, when the federal government was moved from Philadelphia to the new capital city of Washington, D.C. In his biography of Adams, historian David McCullough recorded that when Adams first arrived in Washington, he wrote to his wife Abigail, at their home in Quincy, Massachusetts, that he was pleased with the new site for the federal government and had explored the soon-to-be President’s House with satisfaction.”

The couple lived in the White House for only five months before Adams lost his bid for re-election to Thomas Jefferson.

As for the White House itself — “James Hoban, an Irish immigrant and architect hand-picked by President George Washington, designed the original building. After the British set fire to it in 1814, during the War of 1812, Hoban led the effort to rebuild the structure.

“The White House is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., in Washington, D.C., perhaps the nation’s most famous address. Empowered by the Residence Act of 1790, President George Washington chose the exact spot for the 100-square-mile capital, on the Potomac River’s east bank and near the Capitol building. Builders laid the White House cornerstone on October 13, 1792, with the Capitol cornerstone following soon after on August 18, 1793.”