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The oldest part of this house is one of the earliest buildings in this region. Robert Sewall bought the property and enlarged the house in 1799, then rebuilt and greatly altered it after war damage in 1814. It served as the residence and office of Albert Gallatin, secretary of the treasury, from 1801 to 1813. Here he directed the financing of the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803, which nearly doubled the area of the United States at that time. In discussion of the bill that preserved it, signed by President Eisenhower on May 29, 1958, the United States Senate called it one of the most historic buildings in Washington.
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