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[Alterations to the Executive Mansion, for Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. View from the south, conservatory and court] / F.D. Owen, Archt. – Antique Wall Art

[Alterations to the Executive Mansion, for Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. View from the south, conservatory and court] / F.D. Owen, Archt., and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic photograph
[Alterations to the Executive Mansion, for Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. View from the south, conservatory and court] / F.D. Owen, Archt., and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html).". 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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[Alterations to the Executive Mansion, for Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. View from the south, conservatory and court] / F.D. Owen, Archt.

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This view shows the conservatory and court added to the Executive Mansion during the alterations made for Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, the wife of the 23rd president. The work was designed by F.D. Owen, and the drawing presents the south side of the building as a glazed greenhouse set beside an enclosed court. Plans like this one record how the presidential residence was adapted in the early 1890s, when a conservatory was a fashionable feature of a grand house and a practical place to grow plants for the rooms. Because the record preserves Owen's own design, it is a useful guide to how the building looked before later renovations changed it.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreForms part of: Mrs. H.S. Owen Collection, 1891-1925 (Library of Congress).
SubjectsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)--1890-1910. Official residences--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1910. Greenhouses--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 602 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110162

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