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Did the Park Services original proposed design for the Presidents House include the Slave Quarters?

April 26, 2017design House original park president proposed quarters service slave

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Did the Park Services original proposed design for the Presidents House include the Slave Quarters?

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No, but it does now. The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor both erroneously reported that the outline of the President’s House including the Slave Quarters would be marked in the paving of the Liberty Bell Center entrance plaza. The Park Service’s proposed outline of the house stopped at the Wash House (see map above), thus essentially erasing the Slave Quarters from historical memory.