The Kilkenny-born architect who designed and built the White House and then, after it was destroyed by a fellow Irishman in the War of 1812, rebuilt it! He also supervising the building of both the United States Capitol and US President James Monroe’s family mansion at Oak Hill in Aldie, Virginia.
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