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2. Decatur House - Wikipedia

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   Beale's daughter-in-law, Marie, bequeathed Decatur House to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1956. The house was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1976. [2] [9] Decatur House, now a museum, is located at 748 Jackson Place, N.W., on President's Park (Lafayette Park). The lower floor is kept in the style of the early ...

3. Category : Historic house museums in Washington, D.C.

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4. Meeting House of the Friends Meeting of Washington

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   Twenty years later the building was enlarged on the south side. In 1970, the red brick town house and garden at 2121 Decatur Place, now known as Quaker House, was acquired for additional educational and community activities, and in 2019 the buildings were joined together with a new lobby and main entrance on Decatur Place.

5. Lafayette Square Historic District, Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia

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   748 Jackson Place, at the north end of the block, is called the Decatur House; it is a prominent surviving design of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Flanking the White House on the west side is the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, constructed 1871–1888, as the State, War and Navy Department Building, once the world's largest office building.

6. List of museums in Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia

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   Newseum, founded 1997 in Rosslyn, Virginia, moved to Washington in 2008, closed December 2019 and is currently seeking new location. [18] Washington Doll's House and Toy Museum, founded in 1975, closed 2004. [19] [20] Washington Gallery of Modern Art; USS Barry (DD-933), opened as a museum ship in 1984, closed in 2015 [21]

7. Decatur accepts ownership of historic Horton house - AOL

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   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.