William Wilson Corcoran's home on H Street on Lafayette Square, Washington, DC
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Where: District of Columbia, District of Columbia, United States
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Creator: Gruber, Martin A
Type: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1919
C. 1920-1924
Topic: Buildings
Local number: SIA RU007355 [SIA2010-1952]
Summary: The house was torn down in the 1920s or 1930s to make way for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce building.
Cite as: RU007355 - Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection, 1919-1924, Smithsonian Institution Archives
Place: Washington (D.C.)
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Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Type: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1919
C. 1920-1924
Topic: Buildings
Local number: SIA RU007355 [SIA2010-1952]
Summary: The house was torn down in the 1920s or 1930s to make way for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce building.
Cite as: RU007355 - Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection, 1919-1924, Smithsonian Institution Archives
Place: Washington (D.C.)
Persistent URL:Link to data base record
Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives
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MarisaBJR
This is William Wilson Corcoran's home on H Street on Lafayette Square. Corcoran was a prominent Washington banker and philanthropist who found the Corcoran Gallery of Art. He purchased the house from Daniel Webster in the late 1840s and lived there until his death in 1888. Corcoran commissioned James Renwick design an addition to the house to accomodate his growing art collection in the 1850s - later Renwick designed Corcoran's art gallery on Pennsylvania Avenue (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery). The house was torn down in the 1920s or 1930s to make way for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce building.
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