Located just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, it is a complex of four formerly separate homes, Blair House, Lee House, Peter Parker House, and 704 Jackson Place. Major renovations of these 19th-century residences between the 1950s and 1980s joined the homes together.
Composed of four seamlessly connected townhomes—two on Pennsylvania Avenue and two facing Lafayette Park on Jackson Place—Blair House retains the unique outward appearance of each original house with a carefully integrated interior.
Blair House, the President's Guest House across from the White House, has hosted heads of state from Winston Churchill to Queen Elizabeth.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla are coming to Washington DC coming. A look at Blair House, the President't guest home where they're staying.
Blair House, known as the president's guest house, is located mere steps from the White House. 2024 marks the bicentennial of the building of Blair House, which for 200 years has been a quiet but integral part of our nation's history.
Blair House was built around 1824 by Dr. Joseph Lovell, the eighth Surgeon General of the United States, on land purchased from Commodore Stephen Decatur. In 1836, Francis Preston Blair, who ran the Globe newspaper and was one of Andrew Jackson’s closest confidants, purchased the house for $6,500.
A gun battle raged in front of Blair House when two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, attempted to assassinate President Truman as he napped at Blair House.
Blair House Washington DC: A brief history of the White House's ...
As the president’s official guest house, Blair House is a complex made up of four connected townhouses that quietly face the White House on Pennsylvania Ave. In total, the four buildings boast 119 rooms spanning over 70,000 square feet, making the residence larger than the White House.