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White House: James Hoban
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The White House, the official residence of the president, is at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC 20500. The site, covering about 18 acres, was selected by President Washington and city planner Pierre Charles L'Enfant, and the architect was James Hoban. The design appears to have been influenced by Leinster House, Dublin, and James Gibb's Book of Architecture. The cornerstone was laid Oct. 13, 1792, and the first residents were President John Adams and First Lady Abigail Adams in Nov. 1800.
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The White House, the official residence of the US President, is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC. The 132-room Neoclassical mansion was built (1793-1801) from the designs of James Hoban (1762-1831), who ... supervised its reconstruction (1814-29) after it was destroyed by the British in 1814. Major restoration work was carried out in 1948-52 after the building was discovered to be in danger of collapse.
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The site for the White House was determined by George Washington and Pierre L'Enfant, the French architect who developed the master plan for the capital city in 1791. The building was designed by the Irish architect James Hoban, who won a medal worth $500 in a contest judged by three commissioners of the District of Columbia.
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Hoban's grand design was not executed because a shortage of skilled labor in the infant capital led President Washington (who never lived in the White House) to scale back the plans. John Adams was the first president to live in the mansion, and only near the end of his term. After his first night in the drafty, creaky, half-finished edifice Adams wrote a famous line to his wife Abigail: "May only honest and wise men ever rule under this roof."
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Invading British troops burned the White House during the closing months of the War of 1812. Rebuilt and enlarged under the direction of Hoban, it was reoccupied by James Monroe in 1817.
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