Photo, Print, Drawing Dougal House, 3259 R Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC Photos from Survey HABS DC-837

Title

• Dougal House, 3259 R Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Other Title

• Georgetown

Names

• Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
• Henderson, J W
• Leiter, Marion Oates
• Dougal, William Henry
• Charles, Robert
• Adams & Haskins
• Price, Virginia Barrett, transmitter
• U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, sponsor
• White, John Poston, project manager
• Anderson, Robert Curtis, field team
• Charbonneau, Aimee, field team
• Gueco, Irwin J., field team
• Maksay, Adam, field team
• Green, Bryan C., researcher
• Lebovich, William, historian
• Boucher, Jack E., photographer
• Rosenthal, James W., photographer
• Dolinsky, Paul D., delineator

Created / Published

• Documentation compiled after 1933

Headings

• -  houses
• -  brick buildings
• -  domestic life
• -  District Of Columbia--District Of Columbia--Washington

Notes

• -  Significance: Andrew Jackson Downing, designer of a romantic vision of the National Mall (not implemented) and the most romantic figure of nineteenth-century American design, wrote in 1850 of the need for truth in domestic architecture, that a country home reflect its function, its location, its owner. Built four years later, on the edge of civilized Georgetown Heights, the Dougal House exquisitely expressed Downing's precepts. And as Georgetown changed and tastes in architecture changed so did the Dougal House. While its architecture says much about mid to late nineteenth-century architecture in Georgetown and the United States, the Dougal House, through its non-architectural artifacts, suggests much about the changes in who owned property in Georgetown in that period.
• -  Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N681
• -  Survey number: HABS DC-837
• -  Building/structure dates: ca. 1854 Initial Construction
• -  Building/structure dates: before 1959 Subsequent Work
• -  Building/structure dates: 1959 Subsequent Work
• -  National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 67000025

Medium

• Photo(s): 11
• Color Transparencies: 11
• Measured Drawing(s): 3
• Data Page(s): 12
• Photo Caption Page(s): 2

Call Number/Physical Location

• HABS DC,GEO,233-

Source Collection

• Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository

• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Control Number

• dc0982

Rights Advisory

• No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://aj.sunback.homes/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

Online Format

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• pdf