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Built 1811-14 for Col. Thomas Dye Owings by Benjamin Latrobe, who redesigned the Interior of the US
Capitol after the British burned it, War of 1812. This house was a center of social life during early
1800's. Henry Clay, while US Sec. Of State, attended a grand ball here. Reputedly, in 1814, someone
posing as Prince Louis Philippe was a guest here. See over.
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