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A Fitting Face Lift For the Frederick Douglass Home; Capitol Hill Landmark Also Honors Americans Who Care

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19911208
Author:Sarah Booth Conroy

At the end of the War Between the States, Frederick Douglass, a onetime slave and an ardent orator, came to town as one of three black men on the District's council of governors. He bought a fine new town house with a fashionable mansard roof and an elegant bay window at 316 A St. NE, on Capitol Hill.

"Douglass thought he not only had the right to live well, but the obligation to show that black people appreciated fine things," said Warren Robbins, founder of the Museum of African Art, once housed in the Douglass home.

The historic house last week received a new lease on life when it ...

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