Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-15
z ARGE SALE OF GOVERNMENT
EA BUILDINGS AND OTHER PROPERTY A.
POINT LOOKOUT MD.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WAsnIyeroN,l

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WAsH1NGToN,l
Office of Chief Quartermaster :
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. -, 1865. J
e der st t. POINT LOOKOUT, MD. commencing
THURSDAY, January lS 1866 at 10 O'clock A. M
the following frame buildings and other public prop
UNITED SIXTIES GENERAL HOSPITAL.
One Headquarters Building IT'S by 25 feet; Is Hos
pital Wards each us by % feet Mess House. 2l0
by % feet one Guards Quarters 167 by q feet; one
COntraband Quarters so by "A feet; Kitchen, 60
by y feet with stationary Engine, Locomotive Boil
and all the necessary apparatus for steam laundry
Stable, 81 by u feet; one Wagon House, small; one
Baggage House, So by p feet; one Warehouse 50 by
p feet; Ice House 40 by 80 feet and 10 feet high
circular water tankl6 feet diameter two Coal Houses
one Saw House, one Forage House, one Dead House,
covered Plank Footwalk connecting the above build
ings. Aggregate length, $50 feet, and feet wide.
The above mentioned Headquarters Building is
two stories high athed and plastered. and the if-
teen Hospital Wards, the Mess-hOuse and a few
other structures, are also lathed and plastered.
10 Hospital Wards , each 10 by % feet Cook
houses, each 143 by Y feet: one Cook house. 40
by 26 feet; one, Cook house, 40 by % feet, with
tiers Building, z by p feet, with two wings, each
40 by 20 feet c. S. Storehouse 90 by y feet one
Dispensary, 40 by 3o feet Chapel 100 by "a feet
House. (bloek0 50 by Is feet Quarters, one Office
and one Store-room, of various dimensions; also,
feet of Board Fence, feet high zoo neai feet Of
covered Plank Footwaks, Y feet wide, and 9,lSS
QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT.. '@l
One Quarters 100 by q feet; one Quarters, 100 by
Il feet; Quarters p by p feet one Quarters 50
by q feet three Stables averaging l39 by q feet EACH
one StorehOuse, "a by q feet Smith Shop, So by
"A feet; one Wheelwright Shop, 81 by a feet, and
four Offices, three Quarters two ore-houses, one
Clubhouse, one Sadlers Shop and one Mess house. of
MISCELLANEOUS BUILDINGS AND OTHER
PROPERTY.
One Post Hospital, 20 by 25 feet; one Commrssary
Storehouse, 200 by 80 feet one COmmssary Saesroom
and Office 81 by q feet Office, q by 10 feet; one
Guard House, Qog,) so by so feet: Guard House,
QogO 30 by 20 feet two frame Guard Houses, small
Ordnance Storehouse, 81 by Y feet; one Slaugh
House, 40 by "A feet, with Shed p by Is feet, and Out
building by feet ono Stable, SO by % feet, and 10
kitchens, Quarters, &c, of various dimensions
One wharf of Timber and Lumber, 476 teetlon and
varying in width from y to lO2 feet, 2iS nea feet of
stockade II feet high Potomac side. with block
house 20 by 80 feet four platforms each 6 by L feet
and 100 neal feet of plank footwalk, feet wide 157
lineal feet Of St0ckade Bay side, with blockhOuse
. by 70 feet and three platforms of various dimen
Sions, and tOOtwak.
One Hose Carriage; IS Fire Ladders; "a Axes: JIG
Fire Buckets and six lengths of Hose, each 81 feet
Three Cooking Ranges; one Perpetual Oven; a
quantity of old Lumber, and number of Pumps.
Point Lookout, situated at the junction of the Po
tomac river with Chesapeake Bay, was, before the
war, favorite watering place, and is well adapted
for the purpose now, having excellent facilities for
saltwater bathing, and abundance of fish and game.
The buildings above enumerated under the head of
United States General Hospital are located direct
ly on the Point, the principal structures being
ranged in circle, radiating from n common centre
and connected by covered footwalks, and could with
moderate expense be fitted up properly for the &C
commodation of visitors, as a steam laundry ice
house, coal-hOuse, water-tanks, and many other
necessary structures for the purpose, ready for
immediate USE An excellent opportunity is also af
iorded to landowners in the vicinity and elsewhere,
tt. secure valuable fencing and building material.
A steamer will leave the Government wharyes south
side of the Basin, near FardyS Shpyard, Baltimore
Md. at 10 o'clock, on the morning of Wednesday,
January H. 1866 for the transportation of bidders
Point Lookout, and will bs retained until the
close of the sale to the passengers to Balt-
more. Meals will be furnished on the boat at the
usual steamboat rates.
The buildings will be sold singly, and other pro-
perty in lots to suit purchasers.
The military guard will remain in charge of the
Buildings, &c for fifteen days after the SALE if de
sired and purchasers will be allowed twenty days in
which to remove their property.
Terms cash, in Government funds. -
NJ. 1. LUDINGT0N,
Colonel and Chief Quartermaster,
de30-l5t Department of Washington.
EDUBLIC SALE OF GOVERNMENT
III PROPERTY.
OFFICE. DEPOT CoMM1ssARY- OF SUBSISTENCE.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. %, 1866. !
VIII be sold lat at PUBLIC put a9Gon on
At Point lookout, Md,
Consisting of the, main Buildings used as Bake
Two Wings each IS by IS feet, and one Wing, 25
by 46 feet; also Buildings occupied quarters for
employees one by 80 feet and one Is by 30 feet In
the Bakery are five Ovens, containing about 10000
bricks.
This property is all nearly new, and affords rare
opportunity for purchasing Lumber and Bricks for
Fifteen days will be allowed for the removal of the
Terms cash in Government funds at the time of
d30-tJal7 Major c. S., U. S. A.