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[Interior of Octagon House showing circular vestibule, Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Interior of Octagon House showing circular vestibule, Washington, D.C.], c1913 Jan. 25. — historic photograph
[Interior of Octagon House showing circular vestibule, Washington, D.C.], c1913 Jan. 25.. Historic photograph from the Washington DC collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Interior of Octagon House showing circular vestibule, Washington, D.C.]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Interior of Octagon House showing circular vestibule, Washington, D.C.]

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The circular vestibule pictured here gives the Octagon its name, an entry hall set within a house whose plan rests on angled walls rather than square corners. Designed by William Thornton and completed around 1800, the house served as James Madison's temporary residence after the British burned the White House in 1814. This 1913 copyright deposit captures the interior in the years before the American Institute of Architects, which acquired the building in 1902, began caring for it as a historic site.

Created / publishedc1913 Jan. 25.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesJ177818 U.S. Copyright Office.
SubjectsOctagon (Washington, D.C.) Entrance halls--Washington (D.C.)--1910-1920. Octagonal buildings--Washington (D.C.)--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,279 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-180922

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