George Peter
Who was the occupant of Newton D. Baker House from 1811 to 1827?
Newton D . Baker House Newton D . Baker House , also known as Jacqueline Kennedy House , is a historic house at 3017 N Street NW in Washington , D.C. . Built in 1794 , it was home of Newton D . Baker , who was Secretary of War , during 1916-1920 , while he presided over Americas mass mobilization of men and material in World War I . After the assassination of president John F . Kennedy in 1963 , Jacqueline Kennedy purchased the house and lived here for about a year . It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976 . History . The house was built in 1794 by Thomas Beall . During its early years , the house was situated on a large plot of land and was said to have had a servants wing attached to the east side . At that time N Street was known as Gay Street and was situated higher than today . In 1796 , John Laird , a wealthy merchant , lived in the house , and later Maj . George Peter , a War of 1812 commander and Maryland Congressman , purchased the house who lived there until 1827 , when the same Laird bought the house for his son . In 1834 , William Redin , the first auditor of the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia , purchased it . In 1868 , Redins unmarried daughter inherited and sold the dwelling , which became the Georgetown Female Seminary . The Seminary had a student body of boarders and day students totaling 105 . In approximately 1890 , John H . Smoot bought the building and converted it back to a private residence again . In 1915 , Col . William E . Pattison French purchased the house , and began renting it to Newton D . Baker in 1916 . When Baker returned to Cleveland in 1920 , French either leased or lived in the house himself for more than two decades . During the World War II , the British military attache occupied the house and rented rooms to British officers . After the World War II , Vice Admiral Alan Kirk , later Ambassador to Belgium and to the Soviet Union , purchased the property . Three years later , Dr . E . H . Gushing bought the home along with his wife . They sold the attached servants wing as a separate residence to Mr . and Mrs . Stanley Woodward who built a new front entrance and lived in the home . The Cushings updated the main houses electrical wiring and plumbing and removed some of the interior walls therefore enlarging the living room . In 1954 , James McMillan Gibson bought the dwelling , added a small rear wing , and installed an elevator and lived there with his wife . In 1964 , Jacqueline Kennedy purchased the house and lived in it shortly after the assassination of president John F . Kennedy in 1963 . The Kennedy family lived here for about a year . In 1965 , Michael Whitney Straight purchased the home for $200,000 ( ) , from Kennedy when she moved to New York City . While living in the home , Straight married his second wife , Nina G . Auchincloss Steers in 1974 . Nina was the daughter of Nina Gore and Hugh D . Auchincloss . She was the half-sister of writer Gore Vidal and coincidentally , a stepsister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis . Straight and his wife spent $125,000 ( ) renovating the home and decided to move to Bethesda , Maryland in 1976 when he was vice chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts . Straight and his wife lived in the home from until 1976 . In 1976 , Yolande Bebeze Fox , the former Miss America 1951 , bought the home from Straight . Fox lived in the home until her death in February 2016 . Architectural details . The home is considered more representative of New England architecture than other contemporary Georgetown homes . The house has many architectural details including a wide limestone stairway , pink-painted lintels with keystones , brick voussoirs , Doric pilasters , and a semi-elliptical fanlight . Resident timeline . - 1794-1796 - Thomas Beall - 1796- ? - John Laird - ?-1827 - George Peter - ?-1834 - John Lairds son - 1834-1868 - William Redin - 1868-1890 - Georgetown Female Seminary - 1890-1915 - John H . Smoot - 1915-1916 - Col . William E . Pattison French - 1916-1920 - Newton D . Baker - 1920-1941 - Col . William E . Pattison French - 1941-1945 - British military attache - 1945-1948 - Vice Admiral Alan Kirk - 1948-1954 - Dr . E . H . Gushing ( who sold the old servants wing to Stanley Woodward ) - 1954-1964 - James McMillan Gibson - 1964-1965 - Jacqueline Kennedy , Caroline Kennedy , John F . Kennedy , Jr . - 1965-1976 - Michael Whitney Straight and Nina G . Auchincloss Steers - 1974-2016 - Yolande Bebeze Fox - 2017-present - David W . Hudgens , performed extensive renovations