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Gen. George C. Marshall and his wife, Katherine Tupper Marshall, purchased this early-19th-century house and its surrounding four acres in 1941. They lived here during the years of Marshall's great achievements as Army chief of staff during World War II, presidential emissary to China from 1945 to 1946, secretary of state from 1947 to 1949, and secretary of defense from 1950 to 1951. The European Recovery Plan, known as the Marshall Plan, reconstructed war-torn Europe and won Marshall the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. The George C. Marshall House, earlier known as Oak Hill and Dodona Manor, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1996.
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