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[[Image:56eugyjnm.jpg|thumb|180px|The White House by James Hoban]]
 
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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>
 
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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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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''Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. '' [[Victor Hugo]].
 
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