Blair House
Blair House, also known as The President's Guest House, is an official residence in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. The President's Guest House has been called "the world's most exclusive hotel" because it is primarily used as a state guest house to host visiting dignitaries and other guests of the president.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Government office
- Description: U.S. presidential guest house in Washington, D.C.
- Also known as: “Blair Home”, “Blair-Lee House”, “Brookings Institution Building”, “Joseph Lovell House”, “President’s Guest House”, “Presidents Guest House”, and “The Presidents Guest House”
- Address: Washington, DC
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include National Mall and The Oval Office.
National Mall
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The National Mall, a national park, is a famous 2-mile-long tree-lined, pedestrian-friendly boulevard in Washington, D.C. stretching from the Capitol Building in the east to the Lincoln Memorial and Potomac River on the west.
The Oval Office
Government office
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Oval Office is the formal working space of the president of the United States at the White House in Washington, D.C. Part of the Executive Office of the President, it is located at the southeast corner of the West Wing. The Oval Office is situated 690 feet southeast of Blair House.
Renwick Gallery
Museum
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The Renwick Gallery is a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum located in Washington, D.C. that displays American craft and decorative arts from the 19th to 21st century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Golden Triangle and Downtown.
Golden Triangle
Neighborhood
The Golden Triangle is a neighborhood and business improvement district in Washington, D.C. Covering 43 blocks, it encompasses the western part of Washington's central business district, running from the front yard of the White House's north side to Dupont Circle and from 16th Street NW to 21st Street NW and including sections of K Street and Connecticut Avenue.
Downtown
Suburb
Photo: Kurt Kaiser, CC0.
Downtown is the central business district of Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. It is the third largest central business district in the United States.
Foggy Bottom
Suburb
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Foggy Bottom is a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States, located in the city's northwest quadrant. It stretches west of the White House towards the Potomac River, north of the National Mall, east of Georgetown, south of the West End neighborhood and west of Downtown D.C.
Blair House
- Categories: building complex, guest house, chancery, building, office, and government building
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.89907° or 38° 53′ 57″ northLongitude
-77.03852° or 77° 2′ 19″ westElevation
56 feet (17 metres)Open location code
87C4VXX6+JHOpenStreetMap ID
way 892200618OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
office=governmentGeoNames ID
4137765Wikidata ID
Q881182
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Western Panjabi—“Blair House” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “布莱尔国宾馆”
- Chinese: “布莱尔宫”
- Chinese: “布莱尔宾馆”
- Chinese: “布萊爾宮”
- Czech: “Blair House”
- Czech: “President’s Guest House”
- Dutch: “Blair House”
- Finnish: “Blair House”
- French: “Blair House”
- German: “Blair House”
- Hebrew: “בית בלייר”
- Hebrew: “בלייר האוס”
- Italian: “Blair House”
- Japanese: “ブレアハウス”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Blair House”
- Norwegian: “Blair House”
- Polish: “Blair House”
- Portuguese: “Blair House”
- Romanian: “Blair house”
- Romanian: “Blair House”
- Spanish: “Blair house”
- Spanish: “Blair House”
- Spanish: “Casa Blair”
- Swedish: “Blair House”
- Ukrainian: “Будинок Блера”
- Urdu: “بلیئر ہاؤس”
- Vietnamese: “Dinh Blair”
- Western Panjabi: “بلیئر ہاؤس”
- “Blair House”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Blair House”. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.