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| engineer= | construction_start_date=1818 | completion_date=1819 | date_demolished= | cost= approximately $5,750 (in 1828)〔 | structural_system= | style=American colonial〔 | size=originally 3,900 (approximately);〔 13,319 (2009)〔("Construction History & Space Inventory." Dolly Madison House (1520 H Street), Washington, DC. U.S. General Services Administration. No date. ) Accessed 2009-12-01.〕 }} The Cutts-Madison House (also known as the Dolley Madison House) is an American colonial-style〔 historic home located at 1520 H Street NW in Washington, D.C.The house is best known for being the residence of former First Lady Dolley Madison, who lived there from November 1837 until her death in July 1849.〔〔Allgor, Catherine. ''A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation.'' Reprint ed. New York: Macmillan, 2007. ISBN 0-8050-8300-6〕〔 The Cutts-Madison House is a National Historic Landmark, part of the Lafayette Square Historic District.〔("Lafayette Square Historic District." National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. No date. ) Accessed 2009-12-01.〕 ==Construction== On March 31, 1793, the U.S. Commissioners in charge of selling federally-owned lots in the District of Columbia agreed to sell square 221 to Samuel Davidson.〔 Davidson died in 1810, and his son and two daughters inherited the property.〔 Richard Cutts purchased lots 12, 13, 14, and 15 of square 221 from the Davidson heirs on October 3, 1818.〔 The house was constructed in 1818-1819 by Richard Cutts, who built the house for himself and his wife, Anna Payne Cutts (Dolley Payne Madison's sister).〔Miller, Albert D. ''Distinguished Residents of Washington, D. C.: Science-Art-Industry.'' Washington, D.C.: National Capital Press, 1916.〕〔Smith, Hal H. "Historic Washington Homes." ''Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington.'' 1908.〕〔Bednar, Michael J. ''L'Enfant's Legacy: Public Open Spaces in Washington.'' Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-8018-8318-0〕〔Evelyn, Douglas E.; Dickson, Paul; and Ackerman, S.J. ''On This Spot: Pinpointing the Past in Washington, D.C.'' 3rd rev. ed. Dulles, Va.: Capital Books, 2008. ISBN 1-933102-70-5〕〔Carrier, Thomas J. ''Washington D.C.: A Historical Walking Tour.'' Mount Pleasant, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 1999. ISBN 0-7385-0049-6〕 The house had two stories, a gabled roof, dormer windows, and chimneys at the north and south ends of the house.〔〔Côté, Richard N. ''Strength and Honor: The Life of Dolley Madison,'' Mt. Pleasant, S.C.: Corinthian Books, 2005. ISBN 1-929175-09-4〕〔 The exterior was originally grey stucco.〔Barnard, Ella Kent. ''Dorothy Payne, Quakeress: A Side-Light Upon the Career of "Dolley" Madison.'' Philadelphia: Ferris & Leach, 1909.〕 The front of the house faced Lafayette Square.〔〔Bryan, Wilhelmus Bogart. ''A History of the National Capital From Its Foundation Through the Period of the Adoption of the Organic Act.'' New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916.〕 The lot on which the house sat was a large one, with extensive space on all sides.〔 Dirt roads bordered the house on the west and north sides, and a large garden with flowers and fruit trees occupied the east and south sides of the house.〔〔 The garden extended south as far as the Tayloe House on the south end of the block.〔 The home was considered one of the more "pretentious" domiciles in the city at the time.〔〔Peacock, Virginia Tatnall. ''Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century.'' New York: J.P. Lippincott Company, 1901.〕 The city gravelled the street in front of the house in 1823.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cutts-Madison House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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