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Palace of Versailles, France.
Palace of Versailles, France.
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== Rococo, Neoclassical and Federal style ==
[[Image:56eugyjnm.jpg|thumb|180px|The White House by James Hoban]]
Baroque led to the exuberant Rococo style. Later, in the mid-18th century, Neoclassical architecture began as a reaction against the Rococo ornament. It was inspired in the architecture of Classical Greece. In America, Neoclassical architecture conducted to Federal style. ''[[Thomas Jefferson]], Benjamin Latrobe, and others derived their building style more directly from Palladio.'' <ref> [http://uk.encarta.msn.com/text_761578082__1/Architecture.html Architecture] </ref>
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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]]. <ref>[http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/nation/whitehse_2 The White House.]</ref>
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