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Where will Vice President JD Vance live?

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(NEXSTAR) — We know President Donald Trump will reside in the White House during his second term in office, and where First Lady Melania Trump and their son Barron Trump will reside — but what about Vice President JD Vance?

Like those before him, Vance will live on the grounds of the United States Naval Observatory.

The first to do so was Walter Mondale, vice president to President Jimmy Carter, in 1977. Located at Number One Observatory Circle in the District of Columbia, the space was built in 1893 and was first meant for the superintendent of the Naval Observatory.


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Before the residence was available to vice presidents, they would live in their own homes, the White House explains. In 1974, Congress agreed to refurbish the house on the property of the Naval Observatory as a home for the sitting vice president.

Slideshow: Photos in, around U.S. Naval Observatory residence

UNITED STATES NAVAL OBSERVATORY, WASHINGTON D.C. UNITED STATES – APRIL 2, 2012: This is a satellite image of the United States Naval Observatory in Washington D.C. United States, one of the oldest scientific agencies in the US with a mission to produce positioning, navigation and timing for the US Navy and the US Department of Defense. Collected on April 2, 2012. (Photo DigitalGlobe via Getty Images via Getty Images)Winter view of Number One Observatory Circle, the US Vice President’s official residence, in snow, Washington DC, January 17, 1977. (Photo by U S News & World Report Collection/Thomas O’Halloran/PhotoQuest/Getty Images)WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 28:
Joe and Jill Biden’s favorite room in the Vice President’s residence is the Solarium photographed October 28, 2016 in Washington, DC. Every Vice President since Walter Mondale has lived with their families on the grounds of the United States Naval Observatory.
(Photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images)US Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a Saint Patrick’s Day breakfast at the Naval Observatory March 16, 2017 in Washington, DC. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden (L) and his wife Jill Biden (R) host Wounded Warriors for an early Thanksgiving Dinner November 19, 2012 at the Vice President’s residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. The Bidens continued their tradition to host the 4th annual dinner for Wounded Warriors being treated at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and their families who will not be able to leave the DC area to be with family for the holiday. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 28:
Joe and Jill Biden’s favorite room in the Vice President’s residence is the Solarium photographed October 28, 2016 in Washington, DC. Every Vice President since Walter Mondale has lived with their families on the grounds of the United States Naval Observatory.
(Photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images)SLUG: ME/ Anderson-OB DATE: Downloaded E-mail 11/3/06 CREDIT: Douglas Chevalier Mary Lee Lamar Anderson, who entertained Washington society when her husband was chief of Naval Operations and who had the iconic red-brick Admiral’s House at the Naval Observatory in Washington, painted a light grey, died of pneumonia Oct. 30 at her Watergate apartment, six days short of her 100th birthday. (Photo by Douglas Chevalier/The The Washington Post via Getty Images)Elementary school children from across the Washington area get a quick tour of the the home of Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009, at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington. About 200 students representing the eight wards got to take the tour. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)Vice President Kamala Harris, fifth from back right, peaks prior to a screening of the movie “Lightyear” on the grounds of the vice president’s residence at the Naval Observatory, Friday, June 17, 2022, in Washington. The vice president and second gentleman hosted an evening of NASA STEM activities at the observatory for military families and local STEM students and their families, including the special screening of Disney Pixar’s “Lightyear.” (NASA/Bill Ingalls via AP)A view of the official residence of the vice president of the United States on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory, Friday, Jan. 13, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)A view of the official residence of the vice president of the United States on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory, Friday, Jan. 13, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)An entrance to the U.S. Naval Observatory, the official residence of Vice President Kamala Harris, is seen Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Every vice president since Mondale has resided in the home, located nearly three miles from the White House, and Vance is set to do the same.

He will also have a set of offices in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building which is next to the West Wing on the White House premises.


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Traditionally, the outgoing vice president would invite the incoming vice president to the residence before Inauguration Day. Vice President Kamala Harris, however, did not invite Vance to the official residence.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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