Beall, Thomas, House (Newton D. Baker House)
- Year
- 1794
- Style
- Federal
- City
- Washington, DC
- Collection
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Built in 1794 by Thomas Beall in Georgetown, this house at 3017 N Street NW later became home to Newton D. Baker, who served as Secretary of War from 1916 to 1920 and presided over America's mass mobilization for World War I. After President Kennedy's assassination in 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy bought the house and lived there for about a year, giving it its alternate name, the Jacqueline Kennedy House.
the building
A chain of owners. Before the Baker and Kennedy years, the house passed through a series of notable residents: merchant John Laird in 1796, War of 1812 commander and Maryland Congressman Maj. George Peter, who bought it in 1827, and William Redin, the first auditor of the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, who purchased it in 1834.
the style
The house is an example of Federal architecture, the style of Georgetown's earliest residential building boom around the turn of the nineteenth century, when N Street was still known as Gay Street.
More on Federalsignificance
The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976 and is also a DC Historic Landmark and NRHP-listed property.
nearby
- Mount Zion United Methodist Church
- Georgetown Custom House and Post Office
- Old Stone House
- City Tavern
- Grace Church (Grace Protestant Episcopal Church)
- Saint John's Church, Georgetown