Hoban house, F St. near 15th, Washington, D.C. 1874 – Vintage Print
(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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This rare historic drawing captures Hoban house, F St. near 15th, Washington, D.C. 1874 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Hoban house, F St. near 15th, Washington, D.C. 1874
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The house on F Street near 15th is tied to James Hoban, the Irish-born architect who won the competition to design the White House and spent much of his later life in Washington. This 1874 watercolor shows the building roughly four decades after Hoban's death in 1831, so it records an older structure that had become part of a changing streetscape. Drawings like this one, made by later artists, are useful to historians because they document neighborhoods that were being rebuilt quickly as the capital grew after the Civil War.
| Created / published | 1874 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing. |
| Genre | Watercolors American 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Transfer ; Map Division ; 1936. |
| Subjects | Hoban, James,--ca. 1762-1831--Homes & haunts. Houses--Washington (D.C.)--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,085 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-128843 |
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