File:Bowie-Sevier House, 3124 Q Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC HABS DC,GEO,12 (sheet 12 of 43).tif

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HABS DC,GEO,12 (sheet 12 of 43) - Bowie-Sevier House, 3124 Q Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
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Bowie, Washington; Peaslee, Horace; Episcopal Senior Ministries; Tudor Place Foundation; Sevier, Ella; Sevier, John; Miller, Herb; Price, Virginia B, transmitter; Archetype, contractor; Commission of Fine Arts, sponsor; Steele, Alyson E, delineator; Stroik, Christopher V, delineator; Comella, Lawrence J, delineator; Lebovich, Bill, historian; Boucher, Jack, photographer; Arzola, Robert R, project manager; Arzola, Robert R, project manager
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HABS DC,GEO,12 (sheet 12 of 43) - Bowie-Sevier House, 3124 Q Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Depicted place District of Columbia; District of Columbia; Washington
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS DC,GEO,12 (sheet 12 of 43)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Washington Bowie, merchant, real estate speculator, church vestryman, officer of the militia bank, director and one of Georgetown's wealthiest men in the first decades of the 19th century, built for himself and his large family a suitably monumental federal style house on heights of Georgetown, offering majestic views south toward the port of Georgetown. Built circa 1810 and attached to a much smaller slightly earlier dwelling the house's well-proportioned spices decorated with a blending of adamesque and classical revival details served elegantly until 1953 as home to only four families: The Bowies, the Nicholls, the Hollingsworths, and the Seviers.

Upon the Death of Mrs. Ella Sevier, the house passed to the Episcopal church ministry to be enlarged as a retirement home for Episcopal women and as a memorial to her husband John's great Grandfather, General John Sevier. The first governor of Tennessee Congressman, and military hero....

  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N653
  • Survey number: HABS DC-60
  • Building/structure dates: before 1808 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: after. 1910- before. 1919 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: after 1890 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: after. 1900- before. 1910 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1919 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 2000 Subsequent Work
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 67000025.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/dc0420.sheet.00012a
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Object location38° 53′ 42″ N, 77° 02′ 12.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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