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[Washington, D.C. building exterior - Hay-Adams House, Lafayette Square] – Historic Photograph Print

[Washington, D.C. building exterior - Hay-Adams House, Lafayette Square], [190-?] — historic photograph
[Washington, D.C. building exterior - Hay-Adams House, Lafayette Square], [190-?]. 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 Washington houses stood closer to power than this one, which faced Lafayette Square within sight of the White House. Built in the mid-1880s for historian Henry Adams and diplomat John Hay, the Romanesque Revival residence was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, whose heavy stone massing set it apart from the square's classical townhouses. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a prominent photographer of American architecture, made this cyanotype in the early 1900s, and the blue-toned process gives the stonework a flat, graphic quality. The house was demolished in 1927, so images like this one are now among the best records of how it looked.

Created / published[190-?]
Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype.
GenreCyanotypes 1900-1910.
SubjectsTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Architecture Colls. (5); Washington, D.C. -- Buildings, Non-govt.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,165 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-170818

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