Area less than one acre Built by Langley & Gettinger Opened 1884 Architect Frederick Clarke Withers | Built 1884 NRHP Reference # 97001469 Added to NRHP 12 December 1997 | |
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Location 1461 Rhode Island Ave., NW, Washington, District of Columbia Architectural style Queen Anne style architecture Similar Folger Shakespeare Library, Arena Stage, Ford House Office Bui, Takoma station, Battery Kemble Park | ||
The United States Daughters of 1812, National Headquarters, also known as the Admiral John Henry Upshur House, is a Victorian Queen Anne building from 1884 which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was commissioned by near-retirement American admiral John Henry Upshur for architectural design by Frederick C. Withers and was constructed by builders Langley & Gettinger in 1884.
It was later divided into three apartments.
The United States Daughters of 1812 organization bought the building in 1928 for $31,214.44 and has used it since. Its NRHP nomination notes some irony in the historic organization's choice of a Victorian-style residence.
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