Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1866-01-12
ARGE SALE OF GOVERNMENT
II BUILDINGS AND OTHER PROPERTY AT
POINT LOOKOUT, MARYLAND.

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ARGE SALE OF GOVERNMENT
II BUILDINGS AND OTHER PROPERTY AT
POINT LOOKOUT, MARYLAND.
HEApoR's. DEPARTMENT OF wAsaINaroS,
0YYicB or CHIEF QuARTBRMAsrBR,
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec, %, 1888. y
bidder at POINT LOOKOUT, MD, commencing
THURSDAY, January Is, 1855, at 10 o'clock a.
m, the following Frame Buildings and other
PubIs ITSIs,E 4, ssas P,ass w hospital
One Headquarters Building, l75 BY Is feet.
Fifteen Hospital Wards, each l75 by Is feet.
One Mess house, $50 by 2s feet
One Guards Quarters, 1877 by "a feet. |
One Contraband Quarters, 80 by IA feet. |
One Kitchen, 90 by Is feet.
One Chapel, IT by IS feet.
One Laundry, % by n feet with stationary
apparatus for steam laundry and drying.
One Cow Stable, Oh BY IA feet.
one Horse Stable, 62by q feet.
| One Wagon house, small.
| One Baggage house, IS by IS feet.
| One Warehouse, IS by IS feet.
| One Ice house, 40 by 80 feet, and 10 feet high.
| water-tank Building, II by II feet, 50 feet
high, with circular water-tank 10 feet diameter.
Ono Saw house,
One Forage. house.
| One Dead house, and
| One Wash house, Of various dimensions.
Also, Covered Plank Footwalks connecting the
above buildings; aggregate length ! 800 feet and
| s feet wide.
The above. mentioned Headquarters Building
| is two stories high, lathed and plastered, and
| the fifteen Hospital Wards the Mess house, aud
few other structures are also lathed and plas-
| tered. -
Ten Hospital Wards, each l4o by IS feet.
| eeven Cook houses, each l43 by % feet
| One Cook house, 40 by 20 feet.
One Cool. house, 40 by IS feet, with two wings,
One Hsadqusrters Building, u by "a feet, with
two wings, each 30 by % feet.
One G. 8. storehouse, 90 by q feet.
One Dispensary, 40 BY IS tsst.
one Chapel, 100 by "a feet.
One Express once, 80 by Is feet.
One Guard House, (block,) 80 by is feet.
One ouarters, one Once, and one Store room,
Also, S,lss lineal feet Of Fencing, IL feet high
$40 lineai feet Of Board Fence, 8 feet high 700
linsal feet Of covered Plank Pootwalks, IL feet
wide and e,lss linsal feet Of Plank Footwalks,
oUARTERMAsTER's DEPARTMENT.
One Quarters, 100 by 2S feet.
One Quarters, 100 by IA feet.
One Quarters, 70 by ~ feet.
One Quarters, 80 by rs feet.
Three Stables, averaging lSa by q feet each.
One storehouse, ~ BY q feet.
One smith shop, IS by "a feet.
, One Wheelwright Shop, OF by IA feet
And four ohices, three quarters, two Store
houses, one OIL house, one Saddlers' shop, ant
one Mess house, OF various dimensions.
MscBLLANEoUs BUILDINGS AND oTHEi
PROPERTY.
One Post Hospital, 10 by IS feet.
Ono Commissary Storehouse, 300 by 81 feet
One CommissAry salssroom and once, 81 b.
81 feet.
ono once, 81 by 10 feet.
One Guard House, Qog,) so by 80 feet.
One Guard House, nogD 80 by % feet.
Two frame Guard Houses, small sire.
One Ordnance stOrshouss, 81 BY Il feet
One Slaughter House, 40 by "a feet, with She
"a by IS feet, and Out building Q by Q feet.
Ten Kitchens, Quarters &c, or various dlmsn
One wharf Of Timber and Lumber, 47e feet long
| and varying In width from % to l02 feet
o 24S lineAl feet Of stockade, IL feet high on Pc
tomAs side, with blockhouse 20 by 80 feet, fou
platforms, each 10 by IL feet, and 100 lneal fec
OF plank footwalk, 8 feet wide.
1877 linsal feet Of stoekade on Bay side, wit
block house Is by 20 feet, and three platforms
various dimensions, and a footwAlk.
One Hose Carriage.
Twenty eight Fire Ladders.
Twenty-fou Axes.
One hundred and sixteen Fire Buckets, and
Six Lengths Of Hose, each 81 feet long.
i Three Cooking Ranges.
. One Perpetual oven.
quantity Of Old Lumber and a number
i Point Lookout, situated at the junction Of tn
l. Potomac river with Chesapeake Bay, was, be
v lore tbe war, q fhNoTto watering place, ana
2 well adapted for the purpose now, having Ell
~ cellent facilities for salt water bathing, al
abundance Of nsh aud game.
. The buildings above enumerated under Il
head Of Omitted States General Hospital al
located directly on the Point, the principal stru
taTes being arranged In q circle,l rAdiAting fro
4 common centre, and connected by covered foo
walks, and could with moderate expense be att
up properly for the accommodation Of visitors,
7 steam laundry, Ice house, coal house, wat
tanks, and many other structures for the purpo
are ready for immed use. An excellent o.
portunity IL also afforded to land Owners In Il
vicinity, and elsewhere, to secure yAluAh
T. fencing and buildipg material.
10 A steamer will leave the Government whGry,
south side OF tho basin, near FArdy's ship -yaT
Baltimore, Md, at 10 o'clock, on the morning
. Wednesday, January II, 1855, for the trans poi
alton Of bidders to Point Lookout, and will
z, retained until the close Of the sale to return
r. passengers to Baltimore. Meals will be fu
40 nished on the boat at the usual (steamboAD rat
A. The buildings will be sold Gingly, and 9th
property In lots TO suit purchasers,
The military guard will remain In charge
I'd the buildings, &c, for fifteen days after the %
II desired, aud purchasers will be allowed tweI
Of days In which TO remove their property
Terms: Cash, In Government funds
ne N, I. LUnINaToN,
Colonel and Chief QuArtermaster,
ds2o.ln Department Of WaShington