The White House is undergoing renovations — here's how it changed after a massive facelift in the 1950s

President Donald Trump is spending time in Bedminster, New Jersey as the White House is undergoing renovations.

In 1947, President Harry Truman noticed the White House was hardly structurally sound, and once he won the 1948 presidential election, he commissioned a group of engineers to tackle the issue.

What followed was a massive, four-year-long gut renovation of the Executive Mansion — the results of which make up much of the White House we know today.

This article has been updated from its original version.