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Can a building be so ugly that people get angry just looking at it? For years, the Old Executive Office Building (the OEOB) in Washington, D.C., received __(11)__ its share of insults. President Warren G. Harding proclaimed that the building was "the worst I ever saw." Mark Twain described it as the "ugliest building in America." At a __(12)__ of ten million dollars over seventeen years of construction, the OEOB was completed in 1888. For many, it was __(13)__ at first sight. The building was used for many purposes over the years and then fell into neglect.
Then one day in 1974, a college student named John W. F. Rogers was working in the mail room of the White House. He was sent to get a chair in one of the OEOB "storerooms." Rogers thought he had entered "the castle of the Sleeping Beauty." "Everything was __(14)__ dust and cobwebs," he recalled, "and yet I saw beauty." Years later, Rogers became the administrator of the building. Once he was __(15)__ , one of the first things he did was to restore the old "storeroom." It is now the grand White House Law Library!
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