15 Dupont Cir NW

Washington, DC

Charles Lindbergh (b. February 4, 1902; d. August 26, 1974) was the first American aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean without stopping. Lindbergh studied mechanics and engineering, but flight represented something much grander for him. In 1927, just after the flight that made him an international hero, he said, “The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science… There were times in an aeroplane when it seemed I had escaped mortality to look down on earth like a God.” Lindbergh briefly lived at The Robert Patterson House, located at 15 Dupont Circle NW. Oddly enough, it just happened to be during the same year Calvin Coolidge lived there while the White house underwent renovation.