[6] Semmes renamed it the Indian King and ran it until 1809, when he sold it to Virginia Congressman John George Jackson.

Contrary to popular belief, British soldiers did not dine or stay here as they burned the city in August 1814.

[7] An image of how the building looked in 1817 was painted by Anne Marguerite Hyde de Neuville in 1817.

[9] It was here, in 1881, that Charles Guiteau would buy the gun with which he would later shoot and kill President James Garfield.

[10] It was the home of the National Press Club from 1909 to 1914, and was visited by Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.

[1] In March 1978, the United States Commission of Fine Arts recommended demolition, while finding the Keith-Albee Theater and National Metropolitan Bank facades historic.

[17] The developer said he would preserve the historic facade of the Keith-Albee theater building, if he could demolish Rhodes Tavern.

[37] The papers of the Committee to Save Historic Rhodes Tavern are held at George Washington University.