White House neighborhood in 1898

Credit: Blair House, The John and Diana Zentay Collection of Historic American Prints

The White House neighborhood from the west published in Leslie’s Weekly, 1898, at the beginning of the Spanish-American War, shows a parade east down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the U.S, Capitol in the distant center. The Old Executive Office Building, then housing the Army and Navy Departments, fills much of the right foreground directly across the street from Blair House, shown between the then two-story Lee House and row houses facing Lafayette Park.