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British-American architect (1764–1820)
Thomas Jefferson altered the White House’s physical layout by adding the east and west colonnades that linked the main residence to service buildings and by reconfiguring how the executive spaces func...
Thomas Jefferson did not design the White House from scratch but he in shaping its early architecture and later modifications: he helped select a design via a presidential competition, reportedly subm...
James Hoban, the Irish-born architect who designed the original President’s House, was appointed to lead the White House’s reconstruction after British forces burned it in 1814; multiple contemporary ...
The East Room is the White House’s largest state room, designed in the original plan by James Hoban and developed as a multifunctional "Public Audience Room," with a history of major repairs, redecora...
The East Room embodies the White House’s overall roots while also recording layers of later decorative fashions; it began as James Hoban’s intended “Public Audience Room” and retained core classical e...
The core factual claim with the strongest support in the provided material is that , with major early reconfigurations credited to First Lady Dolley Madison and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe during...
The most recent reporting identifies as the primary contractor on the current White House ballroom project, with as designer and as the engineering partner; this team is described repeatedly across Oc...