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As a learning experience the other day, we tried making a 360 tour of (most of) the Jefferson Patterson house. It's a little bit drear looking since it's been prepped for renovations and there aren't many lights—we'd actually have preferred to edit the images to make them look less gloomy but the convenience of Matterport's system outweighed using a different service. Eventually it'll be both a public-facing experience and part of resources about wealth, class, and race in Calvert County as requested by a local education supervisor.
In the meantime, we're using a free Matterport account to get started which means I can't share the house directly. If you want to see it though, we've setup a dummy account. Just login with the email jefpat@sharklasers.com and the password Pointfarm1932! at https://bit.ly/3i8Q7z8
The house is 10,000 square feet and designed by architect Gertrude Sawyer, one of the few women licensed in the US (or at least DC) at the time. It was originally built in 1933-1934 and had a few modifications done to it over the years, like reworking the bedrooms when Jefferson Patterson got married and adding an elevator after he'd had a stroke. We left out the basement, which is frightful and moldy, and a few of the roughest looking rooms.
