In the 1790s, prominent guests to Analostan included Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and Louis Phillipe, Duc d'Orleans, who later became the King of France.
In 1806 the west wing was destroyed by a fire while the Masons were at their Georgetown home. Thomas Jefferson described the effects of the fire: "one wing was burnt down and the middle nearly so. They saved their furniture. Suspicions arising that it was done by one of his house servants who wished the family to go back to Georgetown, he was arrested and on his way to prison with the constable, he jumped out of the boat and drowned himself. I understand the family will continue through the summer in the remaining wing." The west wing was never rebuilt.
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