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- PATTER_181101_06.JPG: Historic Site, Washington, DC
Patterson House
15 Dupont Circle, NW
The Washington Club has occupied this Italian neoclassical mansion since 1951. Elizabeth Blair Lee (1818-1906), daughter of presidential advisor Francis Preston Balir, established the club in 1891 for women interested in literary, social, and educational activities. Wartime Washington is a collection of Lee's accounts of daily life during the Civil War.
Stanford White of the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White completed this mansion in 1903 for Chicago Tribute Editor Robert Wilson Patterson and his wife Elinor. In the summer of 1927, the house served as the temporary White House for President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. The Patterson's daughter Eleanor "Cissy" Medill Patterson, publisher of the Washington Times-Herald, willed the house to the American Red Cross, from whom The Washington Club purchased it.
Elizabeth Blair Lee
Thomas Sully, 1840
- Wikipedia Description: Patterson Mansion
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Patterson Mansion (also known as the Patterson House or the Washington Club) is a historic Neoclassical-style mansion located at 15 Dupont Circle NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It was built by Robert Wilson Patterson, editor of the Chicago Tribune newspaper, and used by him and his family for entertaining when he was in the city. Completed in 1903, it was deeded to the American Red Cross in 1948. The Red Cross sold it to the Washington Club in 1951. The structure was renovated and a small, two-story addition added in 1955. As of December 2013, the property was up for sale after plans to convert it into a boutique hotel fell through. In June 2014, the Washington Club sold the Mansion for $20 Million to developer SB-Urban. The Washington Club sold the property because "it is disbanding and no longer needs the space, according to John Matteo, an attorney at Jackson & Campbell, who represented the club in the sale."
The mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 5, 1972. It is a contributing property to both the Dupont Circle Historic District (added to the National Register in 1978) and the Massachusetts Avenue Historic District (added to the National Register in 1974).
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