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French Minister's Residence, Washington D.C.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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French Minister's Residence, Washington D.C.
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English: The title "French Minister's Residence" is just part of the story. This is in Capital Losses as the "Corcoran House". The original house on the property was built in 1828 (architect unknown) by Thomas Swann, a Maryland attorney, located on the corner of H and Connecticut streets, across from the northwest corner of Lafayette Square. It was given to Daniel Webster in 1840 or so; the Webster–Ashburton Treaty was negotiated in the house. Webster sold it to Template:William Wilson Corcoran in 1848, who had architect James Renwick, Jr. completely remodel and expand it in 1849. Photo of it here (LOC). Corcoran was a Southern sympathizer, so he left for Europe at the outbreak of the Civil War, renting the house to the French Legation, which gave it diplomatic immunity. (Another of his buildings a block away, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, also designed by Renwick and built in 1858, was seized by the U.S. Government, though given back after the war; today it is the Renwick Gallery). He returned from France right at the end of the war, so I guess this was taken during the Civil War sometime. Corcoran died in 1888 and left the house to his grandson, who rented it to a "succession of prominent senators and government officials". It was torn down in 1922 to make way for the Chamber of Commerce building, which is there today. Capital Losses has a bunch of Frances Benjamin Johnston photographs made of the house, including some interior ones (pretty spectacular) credited to the Library of Congress; looks like a few are online here, here, here, and an interior one here. - (lightly edited from remarks by Carl Lindberg, originally made at User talk:Jmabel/Stereo cards of Washington, D.C.)
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Created: 1860-1885.


Coverage: 1860-1885. Source Imprint: 1860?-1885?.

Digital item published 12-1-2005; updated 2-12-2009.
institution QS:P195,Q219555
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs
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  • Catalog Call Number: MFY Dennis Coll 90-F108
  • Record ID: 650814
  • Digital ID: G90F108_010F
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Original source: Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views. / United States. / States / Washington, D.C. / Stereoscopic views of buildings and homes in Washington, D.C.. (Approx. 72,000 stereoscopic views : 10 x 18 cm. or smaller.) digital record

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