Palladian architecture design, as this was now the most fashionable of the era. He selected architect Henry Flitcroft, a protege of Burlington. Flitcroft's designs, while Palladian in nature, would not be recognised by Palladio himself. The central block is small, only three bays, the temple-like portico is merely suggested, and it is closed. Two great flanking wings containing a vast suite of state rooms replace the walls or colonnades which should have connected to the farm buildings; the farm buildings terminating the structure are elevated in height to match the central block, and given Palladian windows, to ensure they are seen as
Palladian architecture closed, or merely hinted at in the design by pilasters, and sometimes in very late examples of English Palladianism adapted to become a porte-cochere; in America, the Palladian portico regained its full glory. One house which clearly shows this Palladian-Gibbs influence is Mount Airy, in Richmond County, Virginia, built in 1758–62. At Westover the north and south entrances, made of imported Portland stone, were patterned after a plate in William Salmon's "Palladio Londinensis" (1734). The distinctive feature of Drayton Hall, its two-storey portico, was derived directly from Palladio. The neoclassical presidential mansion, the White House in Washington, was inspired by