North Lawn

In the 1990s the broadcast point was moved to a new area of the lawn covered with gravel for the purpose, leading to the nickname 'Pebble Beach'.

[2] A reviewing stand is erected on the North Lawn facing Pennsylvania Avenue prior to the inauguration of the president.

Pierre-Charles L'Enfant's 1793 plan of the city of Washington placed the President's House facing a convergence of radial avenues centered on the North Lawn.

[3] In 1848, a bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson was placed in middle of the lawn by President James K. Polk; it was replaced by a pool and "gurg" steam-driven fountain in 1871.

Olmsted understood the need to offer presidents and their families a modicum of privacy balancing with the requirement for public views of the White House.

The North Lawn at the White House
An American Elm, Ulmus americana , with yellow fall foliage
Presidential reviewing stand and North Lawn
The North Lawn and a column of the North Portico photographed from the present President's Dining Room , c. 1902
The White House North Lawn and its statue of Thomas Jefferson in the 1860s, during the Abraham Lincoln administration