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{"id":28086,"date":"2024-01-04T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=28086"},"modified":"2024-07-26T14:45:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T18:45:22","slug":"joseph-lovell-at-blair-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/01\/04\/joseph-lovell-at-blair-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Lovell at Blair House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Circulating Now welcomes Cody A. Moore, from the U.S. Department of State, to talk about the connection between<span class=\"ui-provider ed blf bei blg blh bli blj blk bll blm bln blo blp blq blr bls blt blu blv blw blx bly blz bma bmb bmc bmd bme bmf bmg bmh bmi bmj bmk bml\" dir=\"ltr\"> Blair House and the first Surgeon General, Joseph Lovell, a portrait of whom, on long term loan from the National Library of Medicine, conveys this history to visiting diplomats. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28096\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28096\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/painting_101447908.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28096\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/01\/04\/joseph-lovell-at-blair-house\/painting_101447908\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/painting_101447908.jpg?fit=900%2C1083&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"900,1083\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"painting_101447908\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Joseph Lovell, (1788\u20131836)<br \/>\nNational Library of Medicine #101447908<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/painting_101447908.jpg?fit=249%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/painting_101447908.jpg?fit=840%2C1011&ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-28096 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/painting_101447908.jpg?resize=249%2C300&ssl=1\" alt=\"Oil panting of a white man in a high collar military coat with gold braid.\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/painting_101447908.jpg?resize=249%2C300&ssl=1 249w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/painting_101447908.jpg?resize=851%2C1024&ssl=1 851w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/painting_101447908.jpg?resize=768%2C924&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/painting_101447908.jpg?resize=840%2C1011&ssl=1 840w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/painting_101447908.jpg?w=900&ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joseph Lovell, (1788\u20131836)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/resource.nlm.nih.gov\/101447908\"><em>National Library of Medicine #101447908<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Settled in the entrance hall of Blair House, also known as the President\u2019s Guest House, a portrait of Joseph Lovell\u2014in a <a href=\"http:\/\/newportalri.org\/items\/show\/7795\">manner<\/a> similar to that of the noted American artist Charles Bird King\u2014awaits newly elected presidents and foreign heads of state as they make their way into history as guests of the famed home. Located mere steps away from the White House, the home was built as a private residence in 1824 for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/hmd\/about\/collection-history.html#jump1\">Dr.\u00a0Joseph Lovell<\/a>, who would become the nation’s first Surgeon General after the U.S. Army reorganization in 1818. In 1836, following the death of Dr.\u00a0Lovell, Francis Preston Blair, a highly touted journalist, and friend to then-President Andrew Jackson, moved into the home with his wife and children.<\/p>\n<p>In the spring of 1861, the Blair family house would be a part of a particularly notable event in U.S. history. A meeting between Francis Blair and an accomplished Colonel in the U.S. Army by the name of Robert E. Lee of Virginia took place there only a few days after the start of the American Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln had asked Blair to offer Lee command of the Union Forces, but Lee declined, saying that he could not fight against his own people. This exchange took place in what is now known as the \u201cLincoln Room\u201d and remains a pivotal point in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28095\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28095\" style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Blair-House-facade.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28095\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/01\/04\/joseph-lovell-at-blair-house\/blair-house-facade\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Blair-House-facade.jpg?fit=445%2C303&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"445,303\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Blair-House-facade\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Blair House, located across from the White House, Washington, D.C. Photograph. Washington, D.C., December 2007<br \/>\nPhotograph by Carol M. Highsmith<br \/>\nCourtesy Blair House Foundation<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Blair-House-facade.jpg?fit=300%2C204&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Blair-House-facade.jpg?fit=445%2C303&ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28095\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Blair-House-facade.jpg?resize=445%2C303&ssl=1\" alt=\"A photograph of a four story white town house with an American flag.\" width=\"445\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Blair-House-facade.jpg?w=445&ssl=1 445w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Blair-House-facade.jpg?resize=300%2C204&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blair House, located across from the White House, Washington, D.C., 2007<br \/><em>Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith<\/em><br \/><em>Courtesy Blair House Foundation<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three generations of the Blair family occupied the house until 1942, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt directed the U.S. government to purchase Blair House for the use of guests of the president. Traditionally, guests of the president were invited to stay in the White House. However, once World War II began in Europe there were just too many guests. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt sought other arrangements after an encounter with Winston Churchill, who stayed at the White House for several weeks over Christmas in 1941. When she encountered him on his way to wake the president at odd hours of the night in a silk gown decorated with a Chinese dragon she decided on other lodgings for the man later known as the \u201cBritish Bulldog.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28197\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/painting-in-Blair-House.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28197\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/01\/04\/joseph-lovell-at-blair-house\/painting-in-blair-house\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/painting-in-Blair-House.jpg?fit=900%2C983&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"900,983\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"1.6","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 15","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1703060290","copyright":"","focal_length":"5.96","iso":"400","shutter_speed":"0.016666666666667","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"painting-in-Blair-House\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Portrait of Joseph Lovell, (1788\u20131836) at Blair House<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/painting-in-Blair-House.jpg?fit=275%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/painting-in-Blair-House.jpg?fit=840%2C917&ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28197\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/painting-in-Blair-House.jpg?resize=275%2C300&ssl=1\" alt=\"A gold framed painted portrait of a man in military uniform hung on a wall in a hallway.\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/painting-in-Blair-House.jpg?resize=275%2C300&ssl=1 275w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/painting-in-Blair-House.jpg?resize=768%2C839&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/painting-in-Blair-House.jpg?resize=840%2C917&ssl=1 840w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/painting-in-Blair-House.jpg?w=900&ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of Joseph Lovell installed at Blair House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The legacy of Blair hospitality continues through the work of public diplomacy each day. Since 1942, Blair House has played host to worlds leaders such as President Nelson Mandela of South Africa and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain. When guests are greeted in the hall just past the famous black door, Dr.\u00a0Joseph Lovell is there also to welcome them to the President\u2019s Guest House.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Cody_Moore.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28090\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/01\/04\/joseph-lovell-at-blair-house\/cody_moore\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Cody_Moore.jpg?fit=273%2C273&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"273,273\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"Cody_Moore\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Cody_Moore.jpg?fit=273%2C273&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Cody_Moore.jpg?fit=273%2C273&ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-28090\" title=\"Cody A. Moore\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Cody_Moore.jpg?resize=100%2C100&ssl=1\" alt=\"A formal portrait of a white man in a dress shirt.\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Cody_Moore.jpg?w=273&ssl=1 273w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Cody_Moore.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Cody_Moore.jpg?resize=200%2C200&ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>Cody A. Moore is a student trainee at the U.S. Department of State, a U.S. Air Force veteran, and student at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. His interest in history and fine arts brought him to work under the Office of Fine Arts and its historic collections in the Diplomatic Reception Rooms and Blair House.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Settled in the entrance hall of Blair House, also known as the President\u2019s Guest House, a portrait of Joseph Lovell awaits newly elected presidents and foreign heads of state as they make their way into history as guests of the famed home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19605840,"featured_media":28196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12763,51014,4940351],"tags":[197072279,4939160,210463,5857393,385674],"class_list":["post-28086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collections","category-guests","category-prints-photographs","tag-joseph-lovell","tag-on-loan","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-president-franklin-d-roosevelt","tag-surgeon-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/painting-in-place_feature.jpg?fit=900%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3xcDk-7j0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19605840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28086"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29519,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28086\/revisions\/29519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |