From NYpost.com…
The White House would have looked entirely different today if it weren’t for an intense competition to determine its design.
In 1792, George Washington spearheaded a contest for those interested in designing the president’s home. Irish-born James Hoban ended up the lucky winner after his neoclassical mansion — known today as the White House — was chosen.
But as with any competition, several entries were rejected. For the first time ever, The Post has obtained the sketches of what the White House could have looked like — had a different entry been selected.
The plans come courtesy of cleaning company HouseFresh, which collaborated with The Maryland Center for History and Culture to digitize a series of previously unseen competition entries that didn’t make the cut. Each design was sketched with a single sheet of crème paper with pricked guide points, pen and iron gall ink, with pencil shading.
