Tudor Place
- Architect
- William Thornton
- Style
- Federal
- City
- Washington, DC
- Collection
- federal washington
Tudor Place is a Federal-style mansion built on a full city block at the crest of Georgetown Heights with views over the Potomac River. Merchant Francis Lowndes built the house's two flanking wings during his eleven years of ownership but never completed it; Thomas Peter and his wife Martha Parke Custis Peter, a granddaughter of Martha Washington, bought the unfinished property and hired Dr. William Thornton, architect of the U.S. Capitol, to design the central structure and the hyphens joining the wings.
the building
Wings built first. Francis Lowndes, a merchant and importer from Bladensburg, Maryland, constructed the house's two wings during his eleven years of ownership beginning in 1794 but never finished the connecting structure.
Thornton's hyphens. William Thornton designed the central block and the hyphens, the connecting elements that joined Lowndes's existing wings into a single completed mansion.
the style
Federal, evident in the central block flanked by symmetrical wings joined by hyphens, an arrangement Thornton used to unify Lowndes's unfinished construction into one coherent house.
More on Federalthe architect
Dr. William Thornton also designed the United States Capitol and The Octagon House; the Peters contracted him to complete Tudor Place after Lowndes's wings were already built.
significance
Tudor Place is a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is also DC Historic Landmark #L_0066.
nearby
- Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel
- Saint John's Church, Georgetown
- Volta Bureau
- Mount Zion United Methodist Church
- Beall, Thomas, House (Newton D. Baker House)
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