President's House

Philadelphia, United States

No longer standing

Demolished or destroyed.

President's House in Philadelphia was the third U.S. presidential residence, serving as home to George Washington from 1790 to 1797 and John Adams from 1797 to 1800, before the federal government relocated to the unfinished White House. Built around 1767 by widow Mary Masters as a Georgian structure on the south side of Market Street, one block north of Independence Hall, the house had a tumultuous history before becoming presidential: it served as British General William Howe's headquarters during the 1777–1778 occupation, then as American General Benedict Arnold's headquarters after the 1778 evacuation. Robert Morris, a Founding Father and Revolutionary War financier, purchased and expanded it following an 1780 fire, and hosted Washington during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. When Philadelphia became the temporary capital in 1790, Morris relinquished the house to Washington and moved next door. The building was demolished in 1951 during the construction of Independence Mall, but the site was commemorated in 2010 as a memorial to the enslaved people in Washington's household and to American slavery's history.

Movement

Georgian architecture

Type: house, destroyed building or structure
Place: Philadelphia, United States

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Location

39.95050, -75.15008