Kalorama

The residence was rechristened “Kalorama", Greek for “beautiful view", by its new owner, American author Joel Barlow, who lived in the home until shortly before his death in 1812.

Keywords

Washington, D.C., estate, Joel Barlow, Stephen Decatur

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District of Columbia

Source

Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 3) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)

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