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Octagon House, [Washington, D.C.] – Antique Wall Art

Octagon House, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1926] — historic photograph
Octagon House, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1926]. 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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Octagon House, [Washington, D.C.]

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The Octagon stands at the corner of New York Avenue and 18th Street Northwest, its eight-sided plan setting it apart from the rectangular houses around it. Built around 1800 for Colonel John Tayloe III, it is generally attributed to William Thornton, the first architect of the Capitol, and it later sheltered President James Madison after the British burned the White House in 1814. This glass negative from the National Photo Company, made sometime between 1910 and 1926, records the house in the early twentieth century, though faint streaks and blemishes across the glass show the deterioration of its original coatings.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1926]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 6 in.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch seven.
SubjectsUnited States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan7,121 × 5,480 px · prints to 24 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-261441

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