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US architecture timeline
1770
27-year-old Thomas Jefferson begins constructing a mansion on a hilltop in Charlottesville, calling it Monticello ('little mountain')
1800
US president John Adams moves into the newly completed White House, named for its light grey limestone
White House, engraving after H. Brown, 1831
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1881
The Chicago architects Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan set up a partnership
1901
Frank Lloyd Wright designs low residential buildings, suitable for the plains around Chicago, and calls them Prairie Houses
1904
US architect Louis Sullivan completes the Schlesinger & Meyer Store (later known as the Carson, Pirie & Scott Store) in Chicago
1906
Frank Lloyd Wright builds a Unity Temple for the Unitarians in Oak Park, now a suburb of Chicago
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