What is the Brentwood Mansion?
Q: What is the Brentwood Mansion?
A: The Brentwood Mansion was a large estate built in 1817 by Robert Brent, the first mayor of Washington City. It was given to his daughter Eleanor and Congressman Joseph Pearson as a wedding present.
Q: Who designed the Brentwood Mansion?
A: Although many people think Benjamin Latrobe designed it, there is no definitive answer since records from this period are poor.
Q: Who owned the mansion during President Ulysses S. Grant's administration?
A: Elizabeth (Eliza) Worthington Patterson and her husband Carlile Pollock Patterson owned the mansion during President Ulysses S. Grant's administration (1869-1877).
Q: What happened to the property after C.P. Patterson's death in 1881?
A: After C.P. Patterson's death in 1881, long-delayed financial problems came to a head and Congress enacted a private bill excusing accumulated District of Columbia property taxes on the Patterson land three years later in June 6, 1884.
Q: Who managed the transformation of the property into an urbanized part of D.C.?
A: Lt Francis Winslow (II), son-in-law of C P Patterson, resigned from Navy to devote himself to subdividing, renting, developing, and selling portions of the property after 19 years of Naval service during post-war years and managed its transformation into an urbanized part of D.C..
Q: When did Brentwood Mansion burn down?
A: The vacant Brentwood Mansion burned down in 1917, 100 years after it was built .
Q: What is located on part of former Patterson land today? A: The new headquarters for Bureau Alcohol Tobacco Firearms (ATF) is located on part of former Patterson land today
