Category:Bodisco House
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English: The Bodisco House, also known as the Clement Smith House, is located at 3322 O Street NW in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and is a contributing property to the Georgetown Historic District. It was built in 1818 for Clement Smith, but is named after Russian Ambassador Alexander de Bodisco, who resided there when the building served as the Russian Legation. The house was used as a headquarters for Union officers during the Civil War. Additional past occupants include Secretary John Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz, who also lived there with her late husband, Senator John Heinz. A federal period house, with a unique, early twentieth century first floor plan, the Bodisco House is included in virtually every book on Georgetown because of the mid-nineteenth century romance and marriage of its fifty-four year old owner, the Russian ambassador, to sixteen year old school girl. On a less sensational level, the early history of the house also reflects the speculative real estate market of late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century Georgetown and its architecture reflects the tastes of that period.
- HABS Survey number: HABS DC-174
- Building/structure dates: before 1818 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1929 Subsequent Work
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Categories:
- Buildings in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
- District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites
- Federal style houses in Washington, D.C.
- Historic district contributing properties in Washington, D.C.
- House of Bodisco
- Houses built in Washington, D.C. in 1818
- John Heinz
- John Kerry
- O Street, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
- Russian Embassy, Washington, D.C.
- Teresa Heinz