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# Octagon Museum · OpenVibe.Tours

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# Octagon Museum

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![Octagon Museum](https://openvibe.media/o/med_01M6ZGB7Z67MWP3VY78RWX4P57) Photo: Aude · CC BY-SA 2.5 · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AOctagon_house.jpg) · [licence](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)

- [**Directions** open the map](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=38.8963&mlon=-77.0415#map=16/38.8963/-77.0415)
- **Admission not confirmed**check before you go

## Why go

Thornton, and completed in 1800, the Octagon was owned by Colonel John Tayloe, a Virginia plantation owner. A few years later, the Tayloes offered the house for use as the French Embassy, where the Treaty of Ghent was signed by President James Madison to end the War of 1812 (he was working there temporarily following the 1814 burning of the White House). The house was sold in 1855, and since used as a military hospital during the Civil War, an apartment building, a girl's school, and has been owned by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) since 1902.

Source: [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Washington%2C_D.C./West_End)

## How to visit

Admission not confirmed. Check the hours and access before you travel.

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## See it live

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