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Woodley Mansion
Woodley is a Federal-style hilltop house in Washington, D.C., constructed in 1801.〔(Maret School Website )〕 It has served as the home to influential leaders, such as Grover Cleveland, Martin Van Buren, and Henry L. Stimson, and is now the home of the Maret School. When originally built, it was based on the Woodley Lodge in Reading, England. Coincidentally, given the mansion's original site, the word "Woodley" means "clearing in the woods."〔Kilborne, Allerton. Woodley and Its Residents. Arcadia, 2008〕 A Maret School-based organization called the Woodley Society was created in 1994 to study its history. Since then, it has become an association of students, faculty, and alumni, which has conducted significant research in a number of archives and libraries in the Greater Metropolitan Washington area and beyond. In 2008, the head of the group, Historian Allerton Kilborne, a very well respected longtime Maret teacher, published a book about Woodley.〔
==History of Woodley Mansion==
In 1801, Woodley was built by Phillip Barton Key, the uncle of the author of "The Star Spangled Banner," Francis Scott Key.〔 In 1797, Key bought the 250 acre wooded estate that Woodley would be built upon. Before the land was sold to Phillip Barton Key, it was owned by Colonel Ninian Beall and Benjamin Stoddert.〔 Once the magnificent Federal-style house was built, it was home to multiple well- known residents, including: Phillip Barton Key, President Martin Van Buren, Lorenzo Thomas, the slave Lucy Berry, Robert J. Walker, Francis Newlands, President Grover Cleveland, William " Billy " Phillips, Sallie Long Ellis, George Patton, Henry Stimson and Adolf Berle.〔 In fact, previous to any of these ownerships, this land was occupied by the Algonqiuan and Nacotchtank Indians. Henry Stimson left Woodley in his will to his alma mater Phillips Academy, Andover, which in turn sold most of it to the Maret School, founded by the three late French Maret sisters, Marthe, Louise and Jeanne, born and educated in Geneva, Switzerland. They became teachers, Louise in Russia, and Jeanne in Germany, in the Philippines and in Washington DC for the Taft children. Then, both Louise and Jeanne followed university programs in DC and Chevy-Chase, Marthe, who became blind at 18 was also teaching at Maret School, as were her sisters. Maret purchased the campus in 1950, after previously being housed in a 1923 building at 2118 Kalorama Road, N.W. Ever since 1950, the Maret School has owned most of the land, while still taking great care of the well-known mansion.〔 Currently, around 650 students attend the top-tier private school. During Maret's tenure, it has been used to house a learning center, a library, a business office, admissions office, as well as the head of school's office.
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