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James Hoban was an Irish Catholic, who was born around 1755, was raised on an estate belonging to the Earl of Desart in Cuffesgrange, near Callan, County Kilkenny.
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James Hoban was an Irish Catholic, who was born around 1755, was raised on an estate belonging to the Earl of Desart in Cuffesgrange, near Callan, County Kilkenny.
James Hoban emigrated to America in 1785. He moved to the site of Washington in 1792, where he was employed at 300 guineas (over $1, 500) a year, as architect and superintendent of the White House.
After some controversy with Etienne Hallet, another architect, he was made superintendent of all the Executive Department buildings in 1797.
It was his energy in carrying forward the work on the White House and the Capitol, in the face of a shortage of funds, that made it possible for President Adams to occupy the former in 1800, and enabled Congress to meet in the Capitol, in the same year, nine years after George Washington and Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant had decided on the site for both of these structures.
After the British burned the White House in 1814, Hoban supervised its rebuilding.
The walls were painted white to conceal the smoke damage.
James Hoban built the White House, (1793–1801, rebuilt 1814–29) that was derived from plate 41 of Gibbs's A Book of Architecture (1728).
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Hoban was also involved in the development of Catholic institutions in the city, including Georgetown University (where his son was a member of the Jesuit community), St. Patrick's Parish, and the Georgetown Visitation Monastery founded by another Kilkenny native, Teresa Lalor of Ballyragget.
James Hoban was married to Susannah Sewell. They had 10 children.
