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67 relations: Alfred A. Knopf, American Institute of Architects, Andrew Ellicott, Annapolis, Maryland, Architect of the Capitol, Augustine Washington Jr., Belair Mansion (Bowie, Maryland), Benjamin Ogle, Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House, Benjamin Stoddert, British Empire, Burning of Washington, Charles Carnan Ridgely, Coade stone, Consul (representative), Dolley Madison, Edward Thornton Tayloe, Eisenhower Executive Office Building, England, Eton College, Federal architecture, Foggy Bottom, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Fuzhou, George D. Ramsay, George Plater Tayloe, George Washington, Georgian architecture, Henry Augustine Tayloe, James Hoban, James Madison, John Tayloe II, John Tayloe III, List of National Historic Landmarks in Washington, D.C., List of octagon houses, List of octagonal buildings and structures in the United States, Lumber, Mary C. Ames, Maryland, Mount Airy Plantation, National Historic Landmark, Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., New York Avenue (Washington, D.C.), Northwest, Washington, D.C., Ogle Hall, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Planter class, President of the United States, Rappahannock River, ..., Richmond County, Virginia, Samuel Ogle, Sandstone, St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square, Tappahannock, Virginia, Treaty of Ghent, United States Army, United States Capitol, United States Secretary of the Navy, University of Cambridge, USS Constitution, Virginia, War of 1812, Washington Jockey Club, Washington, D.C., William Meade, William Thornton. Expand index (17 more) »
Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. and Blanche Knopf in 1915.
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American Institute of Architects
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States.
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Andrew Ellicott
Andrew Ellicott (January 24, 1754 – August 28, 1820) was a U.S. surveyor who helped map many of the territories west of the Appalachians, surveyed the boundaries of the District of Columbia, continued and completed Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant's work on the plan for Washington, D.C., and served as a teacher in survey methods for Meriwether Lewis.
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Annapolis, Maryland
Annapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland, as well as the county seat of Anne Arundel County.
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Architect of the Capitol
The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is the federal agency responsible for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States Capitol Complex, and also the head of that agency.
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Augustine Washington Jr.
Augustine Washington Jr. (1720–1762) was an American soldier, planter, and politician.
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Belair Mansion (Bowie, Maryland)
The Belair Mansion, located in Collington, Maryland, United States, built in c. 1745, is the Georgian style plantation house of Provincial Governor of Maryland, Samuel Ogle.
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Benjamin Ogle
Benjamin Ogle (January 27, 1749 – July 7, 1809) was the ninth Governor of Maryland from 1798 to 1801.
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Benjamin Ogle Tayloe
Benjamin Ogle Tayloe (May 21, 1796 — February 25, 1868) was an American businessman, bon vivant, diplomat, and influential political activist in Washington, D.C. during the first half of the 19th century.
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Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House
The Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House is a Federal-style house located at 21 Madison Place NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States.
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Benjamin Stoddert
Benjamin Stoddert (1744 – December 18, 1813) was the first United States Secretary of the Navy from May 1, 1798 to March 31, 1801.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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Burning of Washington
The Burning of Washington was a British invasion of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, during the War of 1812.
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Charles Carnan Ridgely
Charles Carnan Ridgely (December 6, 1760July 17, 1829) was born Charles Ridgely Carnan.
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Coade stone
Coade stone or Lithodipyra or Lithodipra (Ancient Greek (λίθος/δίς/πυρά), "stone fired twice") was stoneware that was often described as an artificial stone in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Consul (representative)
A consul is an official representative of the government of one state in the territory of another, normally acting to assist and protect the citizens of the consul's own country, and to facilitate trade and friendship between the people of the two countries.
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Dolley Madison
Dorothea "Dolley" Dandridge Payne Todd Madison (May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849) was the wife of James Madison, President of the United States from 1809 to 1817.
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Edward Thornton Tayloe
"Edward Thorton Tayloe" (January 21, 1803 – November 26, 1876) was an American Diplomat and planter.
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Eisenhower Executive Office Building
The Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB)—formerly known as the Old Executive Office Building (OEOB) and even earlier as the State, War, and Navy Building—is a U.S. government building situated just west of the White House in the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C. Maintained by the General Services Administration, it is occupied by the Executive Office of the President, including the Office of the Vice President of the United States.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Eton College
Eton College is an English independent boarding school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, near Windsor.
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Federal architecture
Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the newly founded United States between c. 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815.
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Foggy Bottom
Foggy Bottom is one of the oldest late 18th- and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington, D.C. Foggy Bottom is west of the White House and downtown Washington, in the Northwest quadrant, bounded roughly by 17th Street to the east, Rock Creek Parkway to the west, Constitution Avenue to the south, and Pennsylvania Avenue to the north.
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Fort Lesley J. McNair
Fort Lesley J. McNair is a United States Army post located on the tip of Greenleaf Point, the peninsula that lies at the confluence of the Potomac River and the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. To the peninsula's west is the Washington Channel, while the Anacostia River is on its south side.
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Fuzhou
Fuzhou, formerly romanized as Foochow, is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China.
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George D. Ramsay
Brigadier General George Douglas Ramsay was a career officer in the United States Army and served as the 6th Chief of Ordnance of the U.S. Army.
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George Plater Tayloe
George Plater Tayloe (October 15, 1804 – Apr 18, 1897) was a Virginia businessman, soldier and legislator who also served as one of the original trustees of Hollins University.
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George Washington
George Washington (February 22, 1732 –, 1799), known as the "Father of His Country," was an American soldier and statesman who served from 1789 to 1797 as the first President of the United States.
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Georgian architecture
Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830.
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Henry Augustine Tayloe
Henry Augustine Tayloe (April 8, 1808 – July 15, 1903) was an American planter, horse breeder and land speculator during the 19th century.
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James Hoban
James Hoban (1755 – December 8, 1831) was an Irish architect, best known for designing the White House in Washington, D.C.
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James Madison
James Madison Jr. (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the fourth President of the United States from 1809 to 1817.
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John Tayloe II
Colonel John Tayloe II (28 May 172118 April 1779) was among the richest plantation owners in colonial Virginia.
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John Tayloe III
Hon.
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List of National Historic Landmarks in Washington, D.C.
The District of Columbia, capital of the United States, is home to 74 National Historic Landmarks.
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List of octagon houses
This is a list of octagon houses.
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List of octagonal buildings and structures in the United States
You are missing the Tower Life, in San Antonio, Texas.
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Lumber
Lumber (American English; used only in North America) or timber (used in the rest of the English speaking world) is a type of wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production.
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Mary C. Ames
Mary Clemmer Ames (sometimes referred to as Mrs. Mary Clemmer; after second marriage, Mrs. Edmund Hudson; May 6, 1831 – August 18, 1884) was a 19th-century American journalist, author, and poet.
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Maryland
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.
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Mount Airy Plantation
Mount Airy, near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, built in 1764, is a mid-Georgian plantation house, the first built in the manner of a neo-Palladian villa.
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National Historic Landmark
A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance.
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Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C.
Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., are distinguished by their history, culture, architecture, demographics, and geography.
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New York Avenue (Washington, D.C.)
New York Avenue is diagonal avenue radiating northeast from the White House in Washington, D.C., to the border with Maryland.
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Northwest, Washington, D.C.
Northwest (NW or N.W.) is the northwestern quadrant of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, and is located north of the National Mall and west of North Capitol Street.
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Ogle Hall
Ogle Hall is an historic building in Annapolis, Maryland, Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties Inventory #AA-530.
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Pierre Charles L'Enfant
Pierre Charles L'Enfant (August 2, 1754June 14, 1825), self-identified as Peter Charles L'Enfant while living in the United States, was a French-American military engineer who designed the basic plan for Washington, D.C. (capital city of the U.S.) known today as the L'Enfant Plan (1791).
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Planter class
The planter class, known alternatively in the United States as the Southern aristocracy, was a socio-economic caste of pan-American society that dominated seventeenth- and eighteenth-century agricultural markets through the forced labor of enslaved Africans.
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President of the United States
The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
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Rappahannock River
The Rappahannock River is a river in eastern Virginia, in the United States, approximately in length.
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Richmond County, Virginia
Richmond County is a county located on the Northern Neck in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Samuel Ogle
Samuel Ogle (c. 1694 – 3 May 1752) was the 16th, 18th and 20th Proprietary Governor of Maryland from 1731 to 1732, 1733 to 1742, and 1746/1747 to 1752.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.
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St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square
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Tappahannock, Virginia
Tappahannock is the oldest town in Essex County, Virginia, United States.
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Treaty of Ghent
The Treaty of Ghent was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Capitol
The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol Building, is the home of the United States Congress, and the seat of the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government.
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United States Secretary of the Navy
The Secretary of the Navy (or SECNAV) is a statutory officer and the head (chief executive officer) of the Department of the Navy, a military department (component organization) within the Department of Defense of the United States of America.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.
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USS Constitution
USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy named by President George Washington after the United States Constitution.
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Virginia
Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies from June 1812 to February 1815.
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Washington Jockey Club
The inaugural match featured John Tayloe III's Lamplighter and Gen.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
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William Meade
William Meade (November 11, 1789 – March 14, 1862) was a United States Episcopal bishop, the third Bishop of Virginia.
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William Thornton
Dr.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Octagon_House
