central open space. circled in red, you see similar arrangements of buildings at other residential properties in and around lafayette square. now, about same time the preceding map was being surveyed, mj williams created what was an ice metric rendering of the white house and buildings surrounding it. it didn t include decatur house, but it does provide a three-dimensional look at compound structure similar to those at decatur house and located even closer to the white house. such compounds and urban slave quarters were found in other cities like savannah, charleston, mobile, new orleans, and were relatively well documented by the historic american building survey in the late 1930s. the home of the slave, written in 1901, buildings like this and like those at decatur house, called town group quarters where he said few house servants were fairly welhoused. the slave quarters at decatur house ceased being there for enslaved people before 1862. in late 1861, the u.s. government