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Decatur House
Decatur House Review
Designed by a celebrity architect and located across from the White House, this may have been the nation's hottest piece of real estate when it was built in 1818. The distinguished neoclassical design is the work of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the country's first professional architect and engineer most famous for his construction of the Capitol and the design of many of that icon's most beautiful interior spaces. Today this is one of the oldest surviving homes in Washington, and one of only three remaining residential buildings designed by Latrobe.
- Address: 748 Jackson Pl. NW, White House area, Washington, DC, 20006 | Map It
- Phone: 202/842-0920
- Cost: $5
- Hours: Mon.-Sat. 10-5, Sun. noon-4; tours every hr at quarter past the hr
- Website: www.decaturhouse.org
- Metro Farragut W.
- Location: Washington, D.C.
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Travel Deals in Washington, D.C.
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- D.C. Dupont Circle Hotel incl. Weekends Courtyard Washington
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