White House Cutaway Drawing, 1950

White House Cutaway Drawing 1950
White House Cutaway Drawing 1950

The occasion for this cutaway of the White House was its $5.4 million, 2 year-long renovation project under President Harry Truman.

By 1950, the White House was a wreck:  saggy floors, weakened beams, crumbling masonry.  The project gutted the entire inside of the house, replacing it with steel girders, but leaving the outside intact.

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White House Cutaway Drawing 1950
White House Cutaway Drawing 1950

Source:  Popular Science September 1950

By Lee Wallender

Deception, influence, fakes, illusions, themed environments, simulations, secret places, secret infrastructure, imagined places, dreamscapes, movie sets and props, evasions, camouflage, studio backlots, miniatures.

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