The White House is getting a new 13-foot fence, almost double its current height, to help keep intruders out.
Tourists may find it harder to get that perfect snap of the White House after construction begins on a new 13-foot fence, almost double its current height, to help keep intruders out.
The National Park Service, which provides care and upkeep for the White House and its 18 acres of grounds, has also been involved in the project. The new fence will have an additional inch of space between pickets, for a total of 5 ½ inches between posts. Officials concluded that a taller fence was needed after a series of White House security breaches, including in September 2014, when a Texas man carrying a knife scaled the fence, sprinted across the North Lawn and entered the White House. That incident led security officials to put in place a second, shorter barrier — made of metal bike racks — several feet in front of the current fence. Potential jumpers would essentially have separate fences to scale — the bike racks and the actual fence.
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