Inside the Stephen Decatur House: The First and Last Private Residence in Lafayette Square
Just across Lafayette Square from the White House, the Stephen Decatur House, completed in 1819, is one of the oldest homes in Washington. Designed by the first professional architect in America, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, for one of the greatest naval heroes in American history, the Decatur House has welcomed 200 years of America’s political elite. After Decatur’s death when tenants rent