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Octagon House, [Washington, D.C.] – Historic Reproduction

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.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Octagon House, [Washington, D.C.]

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Few houses in the capital have a more eventful history than the Octagon House, a brick mansion at the corner of New York Avenue and 18th Street NW. Built in the late 1790s for Colonel John Tayloe III and associated with architect William Thornton, it became a temporary residence for President James Madison after the British burned the White House in 1814. The treaty ending the War of 1812 was ratified in its rooms the following year. This glass negative, made by the National Photo Company between about 1910 and 1926, records the building in the early twentieth century, when its unusual eight-sided plan already set it apart from the rectangular houses around it.

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 scan7,097 × 5,472 px · prints to 24 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-261436

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