Baron and Baroness Hyde de Neuville and Decatur House - Photo 2
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- Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture, New-York Historical Society
Baron and Baroness Hyde de Neuville and Decatur House - Photo 2
De Neuville’s watercolor of F Street, N.W. in Washington illustrated the one-story frame and two-story brick houses with gardens that once stood alongside commercial and government buildings, including Rhodes Tavern, Little Hotel, Blodgett’s Hotel, and the Treasury and State Departments, 1821.
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