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In 1800, the new presidential building in the new capital of Washington, D.C., was ready, and Abigail had to make the move from Philadelphia. She oversaw the move from the president’s mansion in Philadelphia to the presidential mansion in Washington, D.C. She disliked the new and still unfinished building and hated the humidity in Washington, D.C., which aggravated her rheumatoid arthritis. In a letter Abigail refers to Washington, D.C., as one of the “very dirtiest hole I ever saw for a place of any trade or respectability of inhabitants.” She could not wait to leave Washington, D.C., and was not too upset that John lost reelection to Thomas Jefferson in 1800.