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PRESIDENTIAL HOUSE IN PHILADELPHIA
ОглавлениеPhiladelphia offered to furnish the house for the President during the time Congress sat in that city, but Washington "wholly declined living in any public building," and rented this house from Robert Morris. Though it was considered one of the finest in the city, Washington several times complained of being cramped.