Word: hoban
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Washington picked the site "upon a rising ground, affording a fine water prospect, with a view of the Capitol." James Hoban, an Irish architect residing in Charleston, S. C., won a $500 prize competition for the plans by copying the ducal home of Leinster near Dublin. Much of his design was lopped away for economy's sake. President Washington laid the cornerstone without ceremony...
When the British burned it in 1814 Dolly Madison saved Gilbert Stuart's Washington portrait. Within the gutted walls Hoban reconstructed...
...citizens were among the good folk, and these noted with pride and pleasure Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of Manhattan among the primates, and close after him, Bishops Thomas F. Lillis of Kansas City, Michael John Hoban of Scranton, Thomas W. Drumm of Des Moines, John J. Lawler of Lead...