Blair House is a yellow masonry building on Pennsylvania Avenue that serves as the official guest house for the President of the United States. While it appears as a singular home, the structure is actually a complex of four interconnected…
Lafayette Square Political History
Walk this historic park directly in front of the White House to trace how a quiet neighborhood square became the nation's premier stage for fierce protest, foreign diplomacy, and presidential drama.
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1. Blair House
2. Decatur House
The Decatur House is a three-story, red-brick Federal-style mansion on the northwest corner of Lafayette Square. Completed in eighteen eighteen, it is one of the few surviving residential designs by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the architect…
3. St. John's, Lafayette Square
St. John’s, Lafayette Square, is distinguished by its pale, stucco-covered brick exterior and a prominent bell tower. Designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, who also worked on the U.S. Capitol, the church was built in the form of a Greek…
4. 815 Black Lives Matter Plz NW #600
The building at eight fifteen Black Lives Matter Plaza Northwest is known as the headquarters of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly called the AFL-CIO. It is a large office structure that…
5. Dolley Madison House
The Dolley Madison House, located at the southeast corner of Madison Place and H Street, is a three-story building finished in buff-colored stucco. Built between eighteen eighteen and eighteen twenty, it was the first residence constructed…
6. General Marquis de Lafayette Statue
The bronze statue of the Major General Marquis de Lafayette stands on a French marble pedestal at the southeast corner of Lafayette Square. This monument, which rises thirty-six feet in total height, features a central figure of the…
7. General Andrew Jackson Statue
The equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson stands at the center of Lafayette Square, positioned directly across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. This bronze figure captures the seventh president as a general at the Battle of New…