DC -- General Winfield Scott Hancock (Ellicott) Memorial:
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- HANCOC_970507_01.JPG: Blair House
The white building hidden behind the trees is the Blair House, which is run by the federal government as a guest house for foreign visitors. It is located directly across Pennsylvania Avenue from the Old Executive Office Building and sits kitty-corner to the White House.
The house was built in 1824 by Dr Joseph Lovell, the nation's first Surgeon General. It was sold in 1836 to Francis Preston Blair. Blair, who discovered the "silver spring" which named that Washington suburb, was a newspaper man who belonged to a string of Presidential "kitchen cabinets" (advisory friends) beginning with Andrew Jackson through Ulysses Grant.
In 1861, General Winfield Scott had met with Robert E Lee, offering him command of the Union Army in the upcoming Civil War. That meeting had been held around the corner at the Winder Building. Now, in April 1861, Francis Blair met with Lee in the Blair House to press the issue. Lee, torn between national and state loyalties, turned down the offer and joined the Confederacy instead.
In December 1861, Blair House was the site where the decision was made to place Admiral David Farragut in charge of the Union naval attack on New Orleans.
The house was purchased by the government in 1948 and President Harry Truman and his family moved in in 1950 while the White House was undergoing renovations. On November 1, 1950, two armed Puerto Rican nationalists stormed the building in an assassination attempt. They killed a guard before being stopped, one of the attackers being killed in the assault.
- Wikipedia Description: General Winfield Scott Hancock (Ellicott)
General Winfield Scott Hancock is an equestrian statue of Winfield Scott Hancock, by Henry Jackson Ellicott together with architect Paul J. Pelz. It is located at Pennsylvania Avenue and 7th Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C.
It was commissioned on March 2, 1889, and dedicated on May 12, 1896, by president Grover Cleveland. It cost $50,000.
The statue is a contributing monument to the Civil War Monuments in Washington, DC, of the National Register of Historic Places.
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