The Washington Jockey Club was an American association in Washington, D.C. devoted to horse racing, founded in 1797. The club established its first racecourse four blocks from the Executive Mansion where it extended from 17th and 20th Streets and extending across Pennsylvania Avenue into Lafayette Park, what is now the site of Decatur House at H Street and Jackson Place, crossing Seventeenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue to Twentieth Street, largely on the site of today’s Eisenhower Executive Office Building. The course was relocated in 1802 to the Holmead Farm two miles north of the Executive Mansion, to what is now Meridian Hill.
Washington DC Jockey Club Fall 1803 The National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser Mon Oct 3 1803
Washington Jockey Club Winter 1805 Results The Maryland Gazette Thu Nov 7 1805
Washington Jockey Club Race Challenge The Evening Post Mon Oct 13 1806
Washington Jockey Club 1806 Winter Race Results The National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser Wed Nov 5 1806
Eisenhower Executive Office Building
The Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB), formerly known as the Old Executive Office Building (OEOB), and originally known as the State, War, and Navy Building, is a United States government building that is now part of the White House compound in the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C. Maintained by the General Services Administration, the building currently houses the Executive Office of the President, including the Office of the Vice President of the United States. Opened in 1888, the building was renamed in 1999 in honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th U.S. president and a five-star U.S. Army general who was Allied forces commander during World War II.
Eisenhower Executive Office Building in 1981
Construction of the State, War, and Navy Building (undated)
The State, War, and Navy Building in 1917
The EEOB from the intersection of Pennsylvania Ave and 17th St. NW, pictured in 2021