The history of the Observatory Circle’s number 1: the residence in which Vice President Kamala Harris lives

Although the White House is one of the most representative symbols of the estadounidense politics to be the place where the president lives, exists other official residence of some relevance, the water finds itself in the number 1 of the Observatory Circle, Washington, and will be hogar de la first female vice president in the history of the country, Kamala Harris, and his wife, Doug Emhoff, for the duration of the next four years.

Se ubica en un 29 hectare land of extension, known as the Naval Observatory of the United States, a few kilometers from Casa Blanca. It was built 128 years ago, has not been opened to the public yet hogar de otros siete vicepresidentes, including the property Joe Biden.

The design of this mansion was built on the architect’s load Leon E. Dessez and from 1974 ha sido la official residence of the Vice President of the United States, although there was no 1977 as Walter Mondale the occupation as the first time. Antes de el, Nelson Rockefeller uniquely uses the usa as a entertainment space.

For this home, use an architectural style of the reina Ana, it was extremely popular in the finals of Siglo XIX in the United States. Account with 33 apartments, a gymnasium of more than 40 metro square, a hydromassage bath and a library, among other elements.

If well there is a situation that no mucha gente conoce y en el cual la prensa no ha mustra mucho interes a lo largo de los años, cabe mencionar que su amplia reception room, frondosas columns and elegant torretas also the proportion a sensation of grandeur.

Originally built to be the residence of the Superintendent Naval Observatory of the United States, a scientific agency related to astronomy for the Marina. Pero from the decade of 1920, was used as the hogar of the naval operations jefes and their families.

Prohibition of probes, la reason for which it is converted into the hogar del vicepresidente, says Charles Danyer, author of the book Number One Observatory and expert in national security, fue que para el Secret Service was complicated to establish sus protocols and any tenien su propia residencia.

“It was a very interesting situation that second most powerful person of United States of America, one of the most powerful people in the world, does not have a designated temporary residence”, Dijo Denyer a The New York Times.

Acerca de todos los años que pasaron para que un vicepresidente tuviera una official temporary residence, the historian and author of 101 Presidential insults, Mike Purdy, commented on the same medium as some way it reflects the “Insignificant paper” of cargo in the previous years.

In this sense, Denyer mentions that leaving Mondale, the vice president’s job is empty mayor relevance including the description as the “more important than this fact. (El presidente) Carter lo involucró en casi todo ”, lo cual se viol reflected in las main mejoras that the house received in amount to comfort and safety.

Cabe mentions that he passed by the number 1 of the Observatory Circle he died huella decorative. ‘Each person has aggregated something to increase the hogar de la proxima familia”, Commented by Jill Biden, real first lady, a The Washington Post of 2017.

George HW Bush, who resigned as Vice President 1981 1981, for example, install a pose in the garden, así como una 400-meter corridor runway. Your successor, Dan Quayle, mando to build one swimming pool, while they Biden create the Jardín del Patrimonio Bekend, donne se graba el nombre de todos los habitantes del hogar, including the mascots.

At the moment, Harris and Emhoff are installing on the Casa Blair, the official residence for invitations, debido and what his new hogar finds in maintenance rates, but Denyer noted the relevance that this residence will have in the near future, for 45 years, the mayor for the time being occupied by “white men and here is a completely different person”.

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