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TITLE: [The White House ("President's House") Washington, D.C. Principal story, measured floor plan]

CALL NUMBER: ADE - UNIT 2564, no. 1 (B size) [P&P]
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REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-66 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-10794 (b&w film copy neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.

MEDIUM: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, and graphite on paper.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1803,1807.

CREATOR:

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect.

NOTES:

Inscriptions on recto: "Plan of the Principal Story in 1803"; "The surrounding Ground was chiefly used for Brick yards, it was enclosed in a rough post and rail fence (1803)"; "During the short residence of President Adams at Washington, the wooden stairs & platform were the usual entrance to the house, and the present drawing room was a mere vestibule"; and "BHenry Latrobe SPBUS 1807." Individual rooms are labeled, clockwise from upper left: "Public dining room"; "Porters Lodge"; "Pr[ivate] stairs"; "Hall"; "Staircase"; "Public audience chamber, entirely unfinished, the cieling [sic] has given way"; "Common dining room"; "Drawing room"; "Presidents' antechamber"; "Library and Cabinet"; "This staircase is not yet put up (1803)."

Watermark: T G & Co.

Reference copy available in LOT 4249.

Forms part of: Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress).

FORMAT:

Architectural drawings 1800-1820.

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID: (digital file from color film copy transparency) cph 3b51649 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b51649
(digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a13205 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a13205

CONTROL #: 2001698951

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