This is the house where the story will take place.
Vice President Kamala Harris will soon be residing on the premises of the Naval Observatory in northwest Washington, DC, in a house occupied by several of her predecessors.
Kamla Harris will reside at the Number One Observatory Circle.
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Harris, 56, will live in the 19th century home with her husband, Doug Emhoff, 56, at Number One Observatory Circle. She will be the eighth vice president to reside in the Queen Anne-style house, which became the official home of the acting vice president in 1974, according to the official White House website.
But first, Harris and Emhoff will have to wait, “to allow repairs to the house that are more easily carried out with the house unoccupied,” confirmed an aide to Fox News, adding that the repairs involved chimey linings and other household services.
Until the repairs are completed, the couple will live at Blair House, near the White House, the home that serves as accommodation for the president’s guests, Fox News confirmed.
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The three-story Observatory Home, built in 1894, is made of bricks and wood, with green shutters and a partial balcony around it. The house, which occupies 72 hectares, also has a remodeled room, living room, garden room, two rooms, reception hall, kitchen and dining room.
The house itself was initially built for the superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory (the observatory is still in use by the Navy), but the then head of naval operations “expelled” the superintendent so that he could occupy it instead. .
The interior of the house consists of a living room, living room, garden room, two rooms, reception hall, pantry, kitchen and dining room.
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The decision was later made to convert the home into the vice president’s residence in 1974, but vice president Gerald Ford never settled down before taking office after President Richard Nixon resigned. His second-in-command, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, maintained a residency elsewhere in the years that followed.
Blair House, the president’s guest house, is seen on January 14, 2021. (Getty Images)
It was not until Walter Mondale, who served under President Jimmy Carter between 1977 and 1981, that a vice president finally moved. It has since been home to Vice Presidents Bush, Quayle, Gore, Cheney, Biden and Pence, and their families. (Pence left home before appearing on Wednesday.)
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Harris made history on Wednesday when he took office as vice president, becoming the first woman and the first black and South Asian woman to take office.
Blair House, next to the White House, serves as accommodation for the President’s guests