Raynors 2012-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/27/2012
A complete and authentic issue of the Connecticut Gazette, New London, August 2, 1792, 4pp., VG. From an interior page “George Town, July 21, On Monday and Tuesday last, the President of the United States and the Commissioners of the Federal Buildings, examined the plans for a Capitol and the President’s House to be erected in the City of Washington. ... Premium for the best Plan of a President’s House was ajudged to James Hoben from Charleston South Carolina ....” Following the American Revolutionary War, Hoban immigrated to the United States, and established himself as an architect in Philadelphia in 1785. Hoban was in South Carolina by April 1787, where he designed numerous buildings including the Charleston County Courthouse (1790–92), built on the ruins of the former South Carolina Statehouse (1753, burned 1788). President Washington admired Hoban's work on his Southern Tour, may have met with him in Charleston in May 1791, and summoned the architect to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in June 1792.
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