The Laird-Dunlop House, an historic mansion in the Georgetown

Georgetown, Washington, D.C.

Georgetown is a neighborhood located in northwest Washington, D.C., situated along the Potomac River. Founded in 1751, the port of Georgetown predated the establishment of the federal district and the City of Washington by 40 years...

 section of Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

  The house stands at 3014 N Street N.W.

Design

The house is tripartite, with a central block set between eastern and western wings. As it stands today, the house is Colonial Revival in design, with red brick, arched windows on the first floor, and a course or line of horizontal brownstone breaking up the facade.

Original owner

The central block of the house, or some section thereof, was originally built in 1790 by one of Georgetown's richest men, John Laird, the owner of a tobacco warehouse. It was inherited by his son-in-law Judge Dunlop.

Robert Todd Lincoln

The house was purchased in 1911 by Robert Todd Lincoln

Robert Todd Lincoln

Robert Todd Lincoln was an American lawyer and Secretary of War, and the first son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln...

, the son of President Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...

. He spent time between this home in Georgetown and his estate Hildene in Manchester, VT until his death at Hildene on July 26, 1926. His wife, Mary Harlan Lincoln, continued to live in both homes until her death in Washington DC in 1937.

Benjamin C. Bradlee

Benjamin C. Bradlee

Benjamin C. Bradlee

Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee is a vice president at-large of The Washington Post. As executive editor of the Post from 1968 to 1991, he became a national figure during the presidency of Richard Nixon, when he challenged the federal government over the right to publish the Pentagon Papers and...

, the Washington Post editor during the Watergate

Watergate scandal

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 era, purchased the house in 1983 and lives there with Sally Quinn

Sally Quinn

Sally Sterling Quinn is an American author and journalist, who writes about religion for a blog at The Washington Post.-Personal:...

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