Jackson Place
Facing the street are mostly 19th century town homes which are now generally used for government offices of other official functions.
During World War I, the building was home to the Committee for Public Information, and for a brief time it housed the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
[2] It is currently home to the White House Fellows program and the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.
The five-story building includes two dining rooms, multiple bedrooms, and space for a Secret Service detail in the basement.
As of 2008, the federal government owns this building and houses small units attached to the Executive Office of the President.
[7] The building at 722 Jackson Place was once the headquarters of the National Woman's Party (NWP) during the time of the Silent Sentinels, the first ever strategic protest of the White House, which lasted over two years asking for women's suffrage.
734 Jackson Place, a National Historic Landmark, served as the headquarters of the American Peace Society between 1911 and 1946.
[1] The townhouse served as temporary quarters for President Theodore Roosevelt and his staff, while the White House underwent renovations from June 25 to November 6, 1902.
On October 3, 1902, Roosevelt held a meeting in the house to deal with the anthracite coal strike occurring in Pennsylvania.
Completed in 1818 for naval hero Stephen Decatur and his wife, Susan, its distinguished neo-classical architecture and prominent location across from the White House made Decatur House one of the capital's most desirable addresses and home of many of the nation's most prominent figures.
[citation needed] For health reasons Ewell left Jackson Place and returned to a farm in Prince William County, Virginia, and subsequently leased the house.
Various government officials lived in the house, including Smith Thompson (Secretary of Navy in the Monroe administration, and later Associate Justice of the Supreme Court), Samuel Southard, John Berrien (Attorney General), and Levi Woodbury (Secretary of Navy, Secretary of Treasury, and later Associate Justice of the Supreme Court), Charles Richard Vaughan (Minister of Great Britain), John C. Spencer (Secretary of War), William C. Rives (father of novelist Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy), Vice President Schuyler Colfax, and General Daniel Edgar Sickles.
