English: 2001 photograph of One Observatory Circle, official residence of the Vice President of the United States. The Queen Anne style house was originally designed to have terracotta brick exposed. In the early twentieth century, as part of the Colonial Revival movement, the brick was painted white.

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The Vice President's Residence was built as the home of the Superintendent of the Naval Observatory in 1893. The house became the home of the chief of naval operations in 1923. Congress turned the home into the Vice President's Residence in 1974.