@smicha: Thanks I'm glad you like it! I have to admit I am not an architect so I am not very familiar with all the specific terms you mentioned. I got a lot of blueprints and detailed photos of all ornaments from the Library of Congress and what I didn't get from there I had to find in night long research online. I tried to be as accurate as possible. Usually I do visual effects for movies here in Hollywood and i fell in love with the White House's architecture after working on a movie in which it was used for. I modeled and textured everything in 3ds max. Hard to tell how much time i spent on it as my job often allowed me to just spend a few hours per week on it. I will definitely render more angles
I often use putting the camera and the target onto the same height to avoid the falling lines but often that is very limiting. In Vray, finalRender ect there's an architectureal camera which is very convinient and it allows for more angles facing up and downwards. Another workaround would be to "squeeze" the render on top or bottom the straighten out the vertical lines. Just have to render at a higher resolution and overscan to compensate for that.
@Bendbox: Thanks glad you like it! Every side of the White House is modeled and yes, many more angles will follow
This is a hdri I am using.