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Detail view of first floor Family Dining Room mantle piece - Perry Belmont House, 1618 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
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Boucher, Jack E.

Related names:

Belmont, Perry
Sanson, Ernest
Trumbauer, Horace
Price, Virginia B, transmitter
Dolinsky, Paul D, project manager
Title
Detail view of first floor Family Dining Room mantle piece - Perry Belmont House, 1618 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Depicted place District of Columbia; District of Columbia; Washington
Date 2002
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS DC-866-3
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  • Significance: This freestanding stone mansion completed in 1909 for Perry Belmont was designed by French architect Ernest Sanson (1836-1918) with Horace Trumbauer of Philadelphia overseeing the construction. The building is a significant example of a lavish city residence designed in the early twentieth century as a place for elaborate entertaining. The visual impact of this house is increased by its wedge-shaped mass and impressive location.

Perry Belmont was the son of New York financier August Belmont and the grandson of Commodore Matthew C. Perry; when he was in residence, the house was the social center of Washington, D.C. By 1929 the Belmonts no longer occupied the house and in 1935 the General Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star purchased the building.

  • Survey number: HABS DC-866
  • Building/structure dates: 1908-1909 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1935-1937 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/dc1056.photos.573619p
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Object location38° 53′ 42″ N, 77° 02′ 12.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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