Doesn the Park Services proposed design for the Presidents House include the Slave Quarters?
It didn’t for years. 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. Due to a public outcry, the Park Service has now agreed to commemorate and interpret the slave quarters.
