DC
Washington
Anderson House
2118 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington DC 20008
Phone 202 785-2040
Web Site
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Description current home of the Society of Cincinnati (descendants of Revolutionary War officers), house was used as a retreat by mid-19th century presidents; 42000 volume library, Asian Arts collection
Type of Resource
House Museum
Primary Focus President
Nature of Group or Site Government
Field of Study/Science Facility Politics
Research /Reading Library
Decatur House
748 Jackson Place
Washington DC 20006
Phone 202 842-0920
Alt Phone fax 202 842-0030
Web Site www.nthp.org
Alt Web www.decaturhouse.org
Description Built by financier Benjamin Latrobe, house Stephen Decatur, Henry Clay, Martin van Buren among others
Type of Resource
House Museum
Primary Focus Famous People
Owner/Operator: National Trust
Decatur House Museum
1600 H Street NW
Washington DC 20006
Phone 202 842-1856
Web Site http://decaturhouse.org/
Description
Type of Resource
House Museum
Primary Focus Famous People
Dumbarton House
Colonial Dames of America Headquarters
2715 Q Street NW
Washington DC 20007
Phone 202 337-2288
Web Site http://www.dumbartonhouse.org/index.htm
E-mail mailto:info@dumbartonhouse.org
Description home of the first registrar of the US Treasury, HQ of the Colonial Dames holds antique furnishings,
documents from early presidents
Type of Resource
House Museum
Era 1800
Frederick Douglass NHS
1411 West Street SE
Washington DC 20020
Phone 202 426-5960
Alt Phone 202 426-5961
Web Site www.nps.gov/frdo/fria/home.html
Description Douglass's home Cedar Hill, filled with personal items, film
Type of Resource
House Museum
Primary Focus Famous People
Group Identity African American
Hillwood Museum and Gardens
4155 Linnean Avenue NW
Washington DC 20008
Phone 202 686-8500
Web Site www.hillwoodmuseum.org
Description home of Marjorie Merriweather Post, Faberge
jewelry & eggs, Russian Imperial decorative art, French
furniture
Type of Resource
House Museum
Primary Focus Garden
Collection A-F Decorative Art
Collection N-Z Porcelain
District of Columbia
Washington DC
Kreeger Museum
2401 Foxhall Road NW
Washington DC 20007
Phone 202 337-3050
Web Site www.kreegermuseum.org
Description 19th and 20th century art in house designed by Philip Johnson
Type of Resource
House Museum
Primary Focus Arts
Field of Study/Science Facility Architecture
Collection N-Z Paintings
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House NHS
1318 Vermont Avenue NW
Washington DC 20005
Phone 202 673-2402
Web Site www.nps.gov/mamc/
Description museum of influential black women and
separate National Archives for Black Women's History
Type of Resource
House Museum
Primary Focus Famous People
Group Identity African American
Octagon
1799 New York Avenue NW
Washington DC 20006
Phone 202 638-3221
Alt Phone 202 638-3105
Web Site www.amerarchfoundation.com
Description temporary home of the Madisons after the White house was burned in the War of 1812
Type of Resource
House Museum
Primary Focus President
Nature of Group or Site Government
Field of Study/Science Facility Politics
Era 19th
Old Stone House
3051M Street NW
Washington DC 20007
Phone 202 426-6851
Web Site www.nps.gov/rocr/oldstonehouse/
Description
Type of Resource
House Museum
Society of the Cincinnati at Anderson House
2118 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington DC 20008
Phone 202 785-2040
Web Site
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Alt Web http://eg.washingtonpost.com/profile/796855/?&fid=3&context=museums
Description built as privates, mansion, now holds headquarters of society founded by George Washington' s
Revolutionary War officers
Type of Resource
House Museum
Nature of Group or Site Association
Era 1905
Tudor Place
1644 31st Street NW
Washington DC 20007
Phone 202 965-0400
Web Site www.tudorplace.org/
Description
Type of Resource
House Museum |
