Adams moves into the unfinished Executive Mansion, the first president to live there

The federal government spent 1800 packing up Philadelphia and relocating to the new capital on the Potomac, where a large house had been rising since 1792. On November 1, 1800, President John Adams moved into that Executive Mansion, the first president to occupy it. The house was not finished. Adams, who had been living in the President's House in Philadelphia, took up residence anyway, and the next day he wrote to his wife Abigail to ask Heaven's blessing on the place…