Thomas Nelson Page House - View this location on map Mansion designed for writer Thomas Nelson Page and his second wife, heiress Florence Lathrop Field Page; notable and early example of the Georgian Revival style by leading architectural firm; knowledgeable adaptation of 18th century English-American residential architecture to late-19th century considerations of space, scale and function; harbinger of the popular use of Colonial architectural precedent; residence of prominent literary figure noted for documentation of the aristocratic South; center of Washington literary and social life in late 19th and early 20th centuries; prominently sited on avenue of grand residences; 4-1/2 stories on polygonal corner site, facades of Harvard brick with limestone and white-painted trim; Ionic portico, fanlight doorway, side loggia, piano nobile with iron balconies, arcaded windows; ceremonial interiors arranged around open stair hall; built 1896, Stanford White (McKim, Mead & White), architect; loggia enclosed by White in 1903 to create vaulted garden room with lattice ceiling 1759 R Street, NW, Washington , DC Historical

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