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Ned Lamont (born 1954), businessman and 89th Governor of Connecticut; born in D.C. Brian Sims (born 1978), Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; born in D.C. [52] Josh Stein (born 1966), governor-elect and attorney general of North Carolina; born in D.C.
Pennsylvania Avenue and 7th Street in 1839 with the First Unitarian Church on the northeast corner of 6th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue visible in the background. Prior to the settlement of the area by European colonists, the Piscataway tribe of Native Americans occupied the northeastern banks of the Potomac River, although no permanent settlements are known in the area now encompassed by the ...
Pennsylvania Avenue is a primarily diagonal street in Washington, D.C. that connects the United States Capitol with the White House and then crosses northwest Washington, D.C. to Georgetown. Traveling through southeast Washington from the Capitol, it enters Prince George's County, Maryland , and becomes MD Route 4 (MD 4) and then MD Route 717 ...
The President's House was a major feature of Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant's [a] 1791 plan for the newly established federal city of Washington, D.C. [15] After L'Enfant's dismissal in early 1792, Washington and his Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, who both had personal interests in architecture, agreed that the design of the President's ...
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20500: Built: circa 1800: Built for: The President's antechamber: Restored: Coolidge-appointed committee of Colonial Revival and Federal furniture experts in 1926. Subsequent work by Maison Jansen in 1961 and Clement Conger in 1971 further refined that restoration. Architect: James Hoban ...
The first executive offices were constructed between 1799 and 1820 on the former site of the Washington Jockey Club, flanking the White House. [6] In 1869, following the Civil War, Congress appointed a commission to select a site and submit plan and cost estimates for a new State Department Building, with possible arrangements to house the War and Navy departments.
Dublin Society offices and studios at 112 Grafton Street, where Hoban learned draughtsmanship. Hoban was the architect for the Charleston County Courthouse in Charleston, South Carolina, built between 1790 and 1792, which drew the attention of George Washington Hoban's amended elevation of the White House form late 1793 or early 1794)
Charles Ogle (1798–1841) Representative Pennsylvania, cenotaph only. R56/S128. Isaac S. Pennybacker (1805–1847), Representative, Senator Virginia, cenotaph only. R54/S111. Joseph Hopkins Peyton (1808–1845), Representative Tennessee, cenotaph only. R55/S120. William Wilson Potter (1793–1839), Representative Pennsylvania, cenotaph only ...