Existing comment:
The President's House:
The long-planned South Portico, delayed by a financial panic in 1819, was finally completed in 1824 by James Hoban. Its massive half-ring of Ionic columns gave the White House architectural dignity.
Engraving, Fenner Sears and Co., based on painting by H. Brown, for J.H. Hinton, The History of Topography of the United States, published by L.H. Hinton et al.
London, 1831. |