SOUTH FROXT OF THE WHITE HOUSE 



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Photo bj' E. L. Crandall 



In the original plans of Washington the south front was intended to be the main front 

 of the White House; modern conditions have made the north front the main one. From 

 this colonnaded portico one looks out through old trees, over a well-planted garden, past the 

 most beautiful fountain in the city to the Mall, the Washington Monument, the Potomac 

 River, and the hills of Virginia. On the slopes below this portico thousands of brightly 

 dressed children, high and low, rich and poor, gather on Easter Monday for the tradition- 

 honored egg-rolling on the White House grounds (see also pages 260 and 261). 



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