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Inside Kamala Harris New Home Next Door To President Joe Biden s
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Vice President Kamala Harris is staying at the Blair House because Naval Observatory is still in renovation
Harris temporary home is just across the White House and is called the president s guest house
Blair House is larger than the White House and has traditional and luxurious finishing
Vice President Kamala Harris is moving next door to President Joe Biden.
Harris, 56, will be leaving her home in Los Angeles and moving across the street from the White House. She will be occupying the Blair House at 1651 Pennsylvania Ave., New York Post reported.
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This story was first published on 1/15/2021; it has been updated to reflect new information.
It’s no secret that the
White House is the primary residence of the President of the United States, but there is another presidential home (albeit one that is not used by presidents as often) that should be on both design and history aficionados’ radars: the President’s Guest House, also known as Blair House. Although it’s not as well known as the People’s House, the President’s Guest House spares no shortage of fascinating history including a presidential assassination attempt and interiors designed by legendary decorators
exploded. the river was filled with burning fire rafts. these were large rafts piled with kindling and logs soaked with oil, which the confederates lit and floated down toward the union ships. veering to avoid one of them, the hartford ran aground under the guns of ft. st. phillip. a confederate tug pushed the raft. flames climbed up the side of the hull and shot halfway up the mast. i thought it was all up with us, faragate wrote. the quick thinking signal officer, the same man who had talked faragate down from the rigging, rolled three shells to the side of a deck, uncapped them and pushed them to the side of the raft blasting them to fragments. the engineers applied all power to back the ship off the mud and she proceeded on upriver. after treating some wounded men below, the hartford surgeon came back on deck again where as he wrote in his journal, i saw a big river steamboat coming straight for us. her decks were black with armed men who he haevidently hoped tod our ship