Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House
The Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House is a Federal-style house located at 21 Madison Place NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. The house is on the northeast corner of Madison Place NW and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, directly across the street from the White House and the Treasury Building. Built in 1828 by Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, son of Colonel John Tayloe III, the house became a salon for politically powerful people in the federal government.
Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House in 2022
Front view
Plaque
The Tayloe House in 1886, the year before Sen. Don Cameron purchased it
Col. John Tayloe III, of Richmond County, Virginia, was the premier Virginia planter; a politician, businessman, and tidewater gentry scion. He was prominent in elite social circles. A highly successful planter and early Thoroughbred horse breeder, he was considered the "wealthiest man of his day". A military officer, he also served in the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate of Virginia for nine years.
Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia
Tayloe's home, the Octagon House, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
Charles Carnan Ridgely of Hampton by Florence MacKubin
Ann Ogle Tayloe by Gilbert Stuart, Metropolitan Museum of Art.