The White House
The White House
Washington, DC1792-1803
James Hoban (1762-1831)
In the 1792 competition for the design of the President's House, President George Washington and the three competition commissioners passed over Jefferson's Rotonda scheme and selected the more conservative design submitted by the Irish-born architect James Hoban.
Hoban's original prize-winning entry (now lost) was identified by the early C19th as owing a debt to Leinster House, Dublin, a house built between 1745 and 1748 by Richard Cassels, and known to Hoban who had trained in Dublin.
After comments from Washington, the design was considerably revised and now looks closer to Gibbs than Cassels. As built, Hoban's design followed the Anglo-Palladian country house tradition rather than that of a villa of the Veneto.
Originally built without the projecting north portico (added in 1829), the White House had a strong similarity to Seacomb Park, Hertfordshire, a country house illustrated in Gibbs' "A Book of Architecture." Seacomb Park was never built owning to the death of the client.
Dimensions: 16.5"w x 6.5"h x 7"d
Weight: 13.4lbs
Scale:1:140
$740.00 / £462.50
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