The site and garden team consists of 13 regular employees. The senior horticulturist is on the staff of the Executive Residence. The other 12 are National Park Service employees — 3 foremen, 8 gardeners and 1 maintenance operator. The White House, the heart of L’Enfant’s President’s Park, is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States.
The mansion, designed by James Hoban in 1792, was intended to offer a view of the Potomac River, which is now hidden by nineteenth-century infill projects. The reasons have changed repeatedly over time, changed by virtually every U, S. Their current general configuration is derived from Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.