Irish Trivia
In 1792, after winning a competition by President George Washington and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, architect James Hoban, who was born in Kilkenny, was chosen as the designer of the original White House in Washington, D.C. In the War of 1812 against the British, the first White House was burned; Hoban oversaw restoration of the edifice afterward.
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