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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 |