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Conjectural elevation copyright ©2000-2010 Edward Lawler, Jr.

The President's House in Philadelphia

The President's House in Philadelphia

On The Radio Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010

Listen to Karen Warrington on WURD 900AM for three consecutive Sundays at 1:00pm to discuss the President's House. Listen to the Feb. 7 show. The second of three shows will broadcast on Feb. 14. Click for Live Stream (click "Listen Live" in right panel on that page).

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Video featuring ushistory.org historian Edward Lawler, Jr.

Project Update

Construction is underway; the interpretive plan is undergoing a reconsideration. Projected completion in the Fall of 2010.

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piomingo

Chickasaws Visit President Washington (1794), written by Richard Green, tribal historian.

fraunces

Samuel Fraunces: Black Man or White Man? Fraunces was steward at the President's House.

The house shown above no longer exists, but it served as the "White House" from 1790 to 1800 while Philadelphia was the capital of the United States. It stood on Market Street, one block north of Independence Hall. The entrance to the new Liberty Bell Center is at the site where Washington ordered slave quarters built to house some of the nine enslaved Africans he brought to Philadelphia.

President's House schematic

Outline of the President's House.
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