This is the house where history is made.
Vice President Kamala Harris will soon be living on the grounds of the Naval Observatory in northwest Washington, DC, in a house inhabited by her predecessors for more than four decades.
Kamla Harris will live in Number One Observatory Circle.
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Harris, 56, lives in the nineteenth-century house with her husband, Doug Emhoff, 56, at the number one observatory. She will be the eighth Vice President to live in the Queen Anne style, which in 1974 was the official home of the incumbent Vice President, according to the White House official website.
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The three-storey house, built in 1894, is made of brick and wood, with green shutters and a partially enclosed veranda. The house covers an area of 72 hectares and features a refurbished lounge, lounge, garden room, two lounges, reception hall, kitchen and dining room.
The house itself was originally built for the superintendent of the US Navy Observatory (the observatory is still used by the navy today), but the then head of naval operations ‘kicked out’ the superintendent so that he could occupy it instead.
The house’s interior has a lounge, lounge, garden room, two lounges, reception hall, pantry and dining room.
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The decision was later made to convert the house into the Vice President’s residence in 1974, but Vice President Gerald Ford never moved in before taking over the presidency after Nixon resigned. His second commander, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, retained a residence elsewhere the following year.
Only in Walter Mondale, who served under President Jimmy Carter between 1977 and 1981, did a vice president finally step in. It has since been home to Vice Presidents Bush, Quayle, Gore, Cheney, Biden and Pence and their families. (Pence moved out of the house before attending the inauguration on Wednesday.)
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The current vice president, Kamala Harris, meanwhile, is not immediately moving to the residence to “provide for repairs to the house that can be more easily done with the house unoccupied,” an assistant confirmed to Fox News, adding that the repairs on quick-release liners and other household maintenance.
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Harris made history on Wednesday when she was sworn in as vice president, becoming the first woman and first black and South Asian woman to hold office.