James Hoban's White House Building

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Survey of Architecture Guide
Part I – Structural & Stylistic Identification
Spanish colonial Mission San Xavier del Bac, Tucson
Build in 1692
Located about 10 miles south of downtown Tucson, Arizona

In front of the church is a large open space and it is enclosed by a fence wall. The front has a large amount of varied colors and bearing the coat-of-arms of St. Francis, is flanked by two towers 80 feet high. The interior contains a lot of artistic statues made of wood.

Neoclassical architecture The white house
Build in 1791
Located in Washington, DC James Hoban's White House design.
The Maryland Historical Society Benjamin Henry Latrobe's drawings for porticoes to the White House, ca. 1817.
Library of Congress The white house has an echo classical Greek Ionic architecture detail. The
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The celling has wedged shaped pieces. Nobody knows who patron for the whole church but it I known that Fr. Velderrain’s sponsored the interior of the church.
This church was designed by architect Ignacio Gaona and had the workforce from O’Odham. For the initial project the money was borrowed from Sonoran rancher.
The White House is made out of timber, sandstone, and brick. James Hoban was an Irish architect responsible to design the white House, the slaves are the people who put the hard work to build the white house and the government was the responsible for the financing. The white house was built in 1791, but it had to be rebuilt after the British attack in 1814. After that all the new presidents developed personal touches to the residence. The president Thomas Jefferson for example, installed two water closets and worked with architect Benjamin Latrobe add bookending terrace-pavilions. The white house was built at cost of $233.000 and today holds 142 rooms on six floors, the floor space totaling approximately 55,000 square feet.

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