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Built in 1802, this house was the home of James Monroe, a lieutenant-colonel in the American Revolution, while he served as Secretary of State and of War under Madison and for the first six months of his administration as fifth President of the United States, from March 4, 1817, to September 17, 1817. It was later occupied by Senator Charles Francis Adams, Minister to Great Britain from 1861 to 1868, and by Mr. Cleveland Abbe, a founder of the U.S. Weather Bureau.
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Washington, District of Columbia · United States
