<P> During the administrations of Rutherford B. Hayes and ( the first of ) Grover Cleveland the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were engaged to reconfigure the South Lawn , reducing the size of Downing 's circular parade , and creating the current boundaries much as they presently are . Theodore Roosevelt who had engaged the architectural firm of McKim , Mead , and White to reconfigure and rebuild parts of the White House in 1902 , was influenced to remove the complex of Victorian era glass houses built up the West Colonnade and the site of the present West Wing . In 1934 , President Franklin Delano Roosevelt engaged Frederick Law Olmsted , Jr. to evaluate the grounds and recommend changes . 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 Olmsted plan presented the landscape largely as seen today : retaining or planting large specimen trees and shrubs on the perimeter to create boundaries for visual privacy , but punctuated with generous sight lines of the house from north and south . The lawn is planted with a grass variety called tall fescue ( Festuca arundinacea ) . </P>
<P> During the administrations of Rutherford B. Hayes and ( the first of ) Grover Cleveland the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were engaged to reconfigure the South Lawn , reducing the size of Downing 's circular parade , and creating the current boundaries much as they presently are . Theodore Roosevelt who had engaged the architectural firm of McKim , Mead , and White to reconfigure and rebuild parts of the White House in 1902 , was influenced to remove the complex of Victorian era glass houses built up the West Colonnade and the site of the present West Wing . In 1934 , President Franklin Delano Roosevelt engaged Frederick Law Olmsted , Jr. to evaluate the grounds and recommend changes . 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 Olmsted plan presented the landscape largely as seen today : retaining or planting large specimen trees and shrubs on the perimeter to create boundaries for visual privacy , but punctuated with generous sight lines of the house from north and south . The lawn is planted with a grass variety called tall fescue ( Festuca arundinacea ) . </P>
what kind of grass does the white house have
what kind of grass does the white house have
tall fescue ( Festuca arundinacea )
tall fescue ( Festuca arundinacea )