Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1866-01-08
ARGE SALE OF GOVERNMENT
IL BUILDINGS AND OTHER PROPERTY AT
POINT LOOKOUT, MARYLAND.

7 ARGE SALE OF GOVERNMENT
IL BUILDINGS AND OTHER PROPERTY AT
POINT LOOKOUT, MARYLAND.
HEApaR's DEPARTMENT OF wAsHrSaroS,
OFFICE OF CHIEH oUARTERNAsrgR,
wAsHINGToN, d. c., Dec, %, 1885.
Will be sold at public suction TO tbs highest |
bidder at POINT LOOKOUT, ND, commencing |
~, tho following Frame Buildings and other
UNiTED STATES GtnERAL HOSPITAL.
One He,dqu.rter. Buildins, l7sby o feet;
Fifteen Hospital Wards, each 175 by Is feet.
One Ness house, $50 BY 2s feet.
One Guards Quarters, 1877 by "a feet.
One Contraband Quarters, 90 by II feet
One Kitchen, 90 by IS feet.
One Chapel, IT by IS feet.
One Laundry, 90 by % feet, with stationary
Engine Locomotive Boiler, and all the necessary
apparatus for steam laundry and drying.
One Cow Stable, 81 by Il feet.
One Horse Stable, 90 by q feet.
One Wagon house, small.
One Baggage house, % byt25 feet.
Ono Warehouse, So by IS feet.
One Ics.h house, 40 BY 30 feet, and 10 feet high.
water.tank building, II by II feet, 30 feet
high, with circular water-tau 10 feet diameter
Two Coal houses.
One Saw house.
One Forage house.
One Dead house, and
One Wash house, Of various dimensions.
Also, Covered Plank Pootwalks connecting the
above buildings; aggregate length l,seo feet, and
The above. mentioned Headquarters Building
| Is two stories high, lathed and plastered, and
the nfteen Hospital Wards, the Mes. house, and
few other Structures are also lathed and plas-
| tered.
PRISON CAMP.
Ten Hospital Wards, each l40 by Is feet.
Seven Cook houses, each las by-22 feet.
one Cool. house, 100 by 30 feet.
One Cook: house, l4O by % feel, with two wings,
each 80 by 20 feet.
One Headquarters Building, ~ by u feet, with
One G. 8. storehouse, 90 by a feet.
One Dispensary, 40 BY IS feet,
ono Chapel, 100 BY n feet.
Ono Express once, 80 BY 10 feet.
One Guard House, (bloek,) 90 by 10 feet
q various dimensions.
Also, s,lss lineai feet Of Fencing, IL feet high
$40 lineal feet Of Board Fence, Q feet high 700
Hueai feet OF covered Plank Footwalks, Il feet
wide and S,lss lneal feet Of Plank Footwalks,
aUXRTERMIsTER's DEPARTMENT.
One Quarters, 100 by Is feet.
| One Quarters, 100 by II feet.
| One Quarters, 70 by % feet.
| One Quarters, 50 by rs feet.
Three Stables, averaging ls9 by q feet each.
| One 6torehouse, 81 by 81 feet.
One smith Shop, IS by "a feet.
| Ono Wheelwright shop, 81 by II feet.
And four 0fiees, three quarters, two Store
houses, one Dollhouse, one saddlers' Shop, and
| one mouse. OF VARIOUS ulmoublO
PROPERTY.
One Post Hospital, 20 by Is feet.
One CommissAry Storehouse, 200 by IS feet.
Ono Commissary salesroom and Once, 81 by
81 feet.
one once, ~ by 10 feet
One Guard House, Qog,) 30 by so feet.
One Guard House, qogO 80 by 20 feet.
Two frame Guard Houses, small size.
One Barraok at Fort Lincoln, 90 by 20 feet
One Ordnance storehouse, % by IL feet,
One Slaughter House, 40 BY "a feet, with Shed
| "a BY Is feet, and Out building 0 by feet.
Ono Stable, 50 BY % feet and,
Ten Kitchens, Quarters, &c, Of various dimon-
| sions.
One wharf Of Timber and Lumber, 47e feet long,
4 and varying In width from ~ to l02 feet
248 lineal feet Of stookade, II feet high on Po-
tomao side, with blookhouse 20 by 80 feet, four
platforms, each 10 by IL feet and 100 lineal feet
I Of plank footwalk, 8 feet wide.
l57 lineAl feet OF Stockade on Bay side, with
block house IS by % feet, and three platforms Of
| various dimensions, and footwAlk.
| One Hose Carriage.
Twenty light Fire Ladders.
| Twenty -four Axes.
| Ono hundred and sixteen Fire Buckets, and
/ Blk Lengths Of Hose, each 81 feet long.
Three Cooking Ranges.
4 One Perpetual oven.
| A quantity Of Old Lumber and q number Of
Pumps.
Point Lookout, situated at the Junction Of the
| Potomac river with Chesapeake Bay, was, be-
1 lOTo Tue WAT, u IhNOrlte place, ana IL
we'll adapted for the purpose now, having ak
cellent facilities for salt water bathing, and
| abundance Of sh and game
The buildings above enumerated under the
head OF. United States General HospitAl'' are
located directly the Point the principal struo.
tuTes being arranged in q circle radiating from
| 4 common centre, aud connected bv covered foot
| walks, and could with moderate expense be fitted
up properly for the accommodation Of visitors, Al
| a steam laundry, leo house, coal house, water
tanks, and many other structures for the purpos,
are ready for Immediate use. An excellent op
portunty Is also afforded to land owners in the
| vicinity, and elsewhere, to secure Valuabl,
| fencing and building material.
| A steamer will leave the Government whAryes
| south sido Of the basin, near FRrdy Is hip-yard
Baltimore, Nd, at 10 clock, on the morning o
| Wednesday, January II, 1866, for the transport
alton Of bidders to Point Lookout, and will b,
retained until the close Of the sale to return tn
| passengers to Baltimore Meals will be fur
nishsd on the boat at the usual (steamboaU rates
The buildings will be sold singly, and othe
| property In lots to suit purchasers.
The military guard will remain In charge q
the buildings, &c, for fifteen days after the sal
II desired, aud purchasers will be allowed tW emit
days in which to remove their property.
Terms Cash, In Government funds
M. |. LUDINGT0N,
| Colonel and Chief Quartermaster.
de20-lT department Of Washington,
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