The White House: An Illustrated Architectural History by Patrick Phillips-Schrock

 ★★★
 
GENRE: Non-Fiction
SUBJECT: The White House 
Setting: Washington DC
CHARACTERS: Benjamin Latrobe, Charles, McKim, James Hoban
DATE READ: May 31 - June 4
NO. OF PAGES: 226
Off the Shelf (pre-2013)? Source?:   Yes, LT ER

PLOT:...........................................3.00
CHARACTERIZATION:..............3.00
TOPICS:.......................................4.00
STYLE:.........................................2.00
ORIGINALITY:..............................3.00
ADDICTIVENESS:.....................3.00
OWNERSHIP:.............................4.00
THRESHOLD QUALITY:............3.00
Average..............................................................3.13

The book is full of diagrams of the current White House as well as the showing pre-renovation versions.  It also documents the floor plans and changes that have been made over the years.

I found it interesting to see the changes that have been made over the years as well as differences to the exterior that I had never seen before.  However, IMO the book was a bit jumpy because of the layout of text versus diagrams/pictures and felt it would have been better served to have all the text together and then reference the diagrams.  Often I lost my place in the text because of the placement of the diagrams/pictures on the pages.