The White House, Lafayette Square and African Americans
To imagine what it was like here when the White House was being constructed in the 1790s, erase everything else...
A photograph of the Wormley Hotel, c. 1884.
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- Courtesy of Donet D. Graves, Esq.
A photograph of the Wormley Hotel, c. 1884.
A photograph of the Wormley Hotel, c. 1884.
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