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Analostan: General John Mason's Summer Home on Theodore Roosevelt Island
The 70-acre Theodore Roosevelt Island, resting in the Potomac River between Washington, DC and Virginia, once known as Analostan and Mason’s Island, was…
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Stephen Hansen
The Columbia Mills and Holt House
A Case of Demolition by Neglect
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Stephen Hansen
Franklin House and the Innkeeper's Daughter, Peggy Eaton
In 1794, William O’Neale, a native of County Ulster, Ireland, moved from Chester County, Pennsylvania to open a stone quarry at Mount Vernon and one…
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Samuel Blodget's Hotel
A “Grand Hotel” that never opened.
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William Tunnicliff's Washington City Hotel and the Old Brick Capitol
In May of 1799, William Tunnicliff announced that his large and commodious new hotel near the Capitol, the Washington City Hotel (often referred to as…
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Stephen Hansen
Aladdin's Palace: The Home of Edson and Julia Bradley
In 1907, New York liquor baron and president of the Kentucky Distilled ries and Warehouse Company, Edson Bradley, bought Gardiner Greene Hubbard’s house…
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James Blaine's Dupont Circle Mansion: A Short Tenure
The grand red brick at 2000 Massachusetts Avenue was designed by architect John Fraser and built in 1881 for James Gillespie Blaine, one of the most…
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Washington, DC's First Executive Office Buildings
In 1820, the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, in addition to the White House, was also home to four, two story red brick buildings that housed the…
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Ford’s Theater: The Site of Multiple Tragedies
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater. Only three years before, the theater had been gutted by…
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Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House on Lafayette Square
The Benjamin Ogle Tayloe house, located on the east side of Lafayette Square at 21 Madison Place, was built in 1828 by Benjamin Ogle Tayloe.
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