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History
Pre-unification
Blair House
Blair House was constructed in 1824; it is the oldest of the four structures that comprise the President's Guest House. The original brick house was built as a private home for Joseph Lovell, eighth surgeon general of the United States Army. It was acquired in 1836 by Francis Preston Blair, a newspaper publisher and influential advisor to President Andrew Jackson, and remained in his family for the following century.Francis Blair's son Montgomery Blair, who served as Postmaster General in Abraham Lincoln's administration, succeeded his father as resident of Blair House.  At a meeting at Blair House on April 18, 1861, Francis Preston Blair Sr. relayed the previous day's offer by Abraham Lincoln to Robert E. Lee to command all the Union Forces in the approaching American Civil War. Later that same year, a conference here decided Admiral David Farragut would command an assault on New Orleans.In 1939, a commemorative marker was placed at Blair House by the United States Department of the Interior, becoming the first building to acquire a federally recognized landmark designation; prior landmarks had been monuments and historic sites other than buildings.  It would be formally designated a National Historic Landmark in 1973.
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