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Decatur House is a historic house museum at 748 Jackson Place in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. It is named after its first owner and occupant, the naval officer Stephen Decatur Jr. [2] Built in 1818, the house is located at the northwest corner of Lafayette Square, about a block from the White House.
The Stephen Decatur House Museum: Washington, D.C. Archived April 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine; Decatur House: A Home of the Rich and Powerful: National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan; Documents, Official and Unofficial, Relating to the Case of the Capture and Destruction of the Frigate Philadelphia at Tripoli ...
Decatur house in Newport Stephen Decatur Sr. (June 1751 – November 11, 1808) was a United States Navy officer and privateer who served in the American Revolutionary War and the Quasi-War . He was commissioned as a captain in the United States Navy, and was the father of Stephen Decatur .
Benjamin Henry Latrobe designed the Decatur House, located at 748 Jackson Place. Completed in 1818 for naval hero Stephen Decatur and his wife, Susan, its distinguished neo-classical architecture and prominent location across from the White House made Decatur House one of the capital's most desirable addresses and home of many of the nation's ...
Federal Style house designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe for naval hero Stephen Decatur across Lafayette Square from the White House. During 1827-1833 was home to successive Secretaries of State Henry Clay , Martin Van Buren , and Judah P. Benjamin .
Sep. 22—Decatur now owns the historic home of Judge James E. Horton, and the final moving date for the house should be finalized next week so it can become part of a planned civil rights museum.
And now, some neighbors will tell you, Mount Decatur itself is under attack, with a proposal by its new owners, who bought the hill as part of the former Dow Chemical plant property, to blast ...
Clay went to Washington, D.C., for his congressional term beginning in 1810 and took the Dupuys with him. They lived with Clay and served in the house he rented, originally built for Stephen Decatur. Located at Lafayette Square across from the White House, today the Decatur House is a museum and a designated National Historic Landmark.