Collection The President's Neighborhood
Since the White House was first occupied by President John Adams in 1800, influential people and organizations—or those who hoped to...
Ground floor plan of St. John's Church
- Credit
- Patrick Snadon and Thomas Williams
Ground floor plan of St. John's Church
Ground floor plan of Saint John’s Church as Latrobe designed it, reconstructed from Latrobe’s surviving drawings.
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