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He Wrote ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’ So How Did D.C. Lose Francis Scott Key’s House?

Lost Masterpieces

Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that led to ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’ When his house was dismantled in the 1940s, the idea was to rebuild it. That never happened.

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