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Robert Dodge House
House in Washington, D.C. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Robert Dodge House in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. is a historic home designed by Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing building in the Georgetown Historic District, which is also a U.S. National Historic Landmark District.
It was described in Calvert Vaux's Villas and Cottages book of 1857 and was documented on the Historic American Buildings Survey.[1] Photographs of its exterior, interior, and building plans were made part of the Historic American Buildings Survey and are on Wikimedia Commons.[2]
The house was designed by Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux.[3] Many of its Italianate features were removed.[4] It originally had a porch tower. It was built for Robert P. Dodge, an engineer for the C & O Canal and was involved in business with Georgetown Gas Light Company and the Columbia Flour Mill.[5]
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