The Sidwell Friends School
3825 Wisconsin Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20016
Completed September 1997
An interesting amalgam of the original late
Georgian construction, this circa 1817 home is one of Washington’s
only surviving 19th-century country estates. The estate has also both
housed and hosted a number of Washington’s elite. Anne Hollingsworth
Wharton observed that, “No house in the vicinity of Washington
is more replete with associations of the past than The Highlands, where
the Madisons, Thomas Jefferson, and other distinguished people of the
day were wont to congregate and whose garden featured shrubbery planted
on the grounds by Thomas Jefferson.”
According to Matt Jennings’ 1997 article, “This Old House,” other
notable guests over the years include Colonel William Seward, Abraham
Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt (who was said to hike and ride horses in
the surrounding woods and fields), Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and William
Howard Taft.
Today, the Zartman house serves as the Administration
Building for the prestigious Sidwell Friends School.
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