June 3, 1800: President John Adams moved to Washington; he was the first president to live in the new capital city. But his home — today known as the White House — was still under construction, so the president moved into a tavern at Tunnicliffe's City Hotel on Capitol Hill. According to historian David McCullough, when Adams first arrived in Washington, he wrote to his wife Abigail (who remained behind in Massachusetts) that he liked the soon-to-be-completed President's House and craved living in a permanent home. "Oh! That I could have a home!" he wrote to her. "Rolling, rolling, rolling, till I am very nearly rolling into the bosom of Mother Earth." On Nov. 1, Adams finally moved into his official residence.
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