*Line of Rise: 16' 7" (5.0m) the point at which the ceiling starts to arch.
*Line of Rise: 16' 7" (5.0m) the point at which the ceiling starts to arch.
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[[Thomas Jefferson]] was among the many people who submitted a plan for the White House. His design, however, was not chosen. Instead, James Hoban, an Irish immigrant architect living in Charleston, [[South Carolina]], won the competition and a $500 prize, with a design modeled after Leister House in [[Dublin]], [[Ireland]]. [http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/nation/whitehse_2]