The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-12-07

hills about Washington. Professor G; Brown
Goode has big frame house ovs3FIIookinE 3fIo the the
Smithsonian Institution, has built tine brick
structure on the edge of the Rock Creek Valley.
Gardiner Hubbard, the father-in-law OF Tele-
phone Bell and one of the richest men here, has
an immense country house Just next TO the coun,
further out still there is another big house owned
by Gen. Drum. Mrs. Logans house on the
heights above Washington increases in value
every day. 1t cost about twenty thousand DOL
lars, but it is certainly worth hundred thousand
dollars now and it will be worth more. Mrs Lo;
gan is making some improvements upon it, and
it is already one of the most homelike and com.
Portable places about Washington. just Dack OF
it, built in hollow and on lot far too small for
it, is one of the biggest houses in the United
States and one of the most magnificent houses IN
Washington. 1t is the Washington home OF Or.
Hammond, great red stone and brick mansion
of perhaps fifty rooms. 1t is, l am told, oeautl-
fully decorated and luXuriously furnished, but
it is so located thatt does not show for half what
it cost and it will never sell for what 1t is worth
| drove the other afternoon along Massachusetts
houses of that fashionable street Chief Justice
Fuller lives in the house which Senator Van
Wyck built. 1t is big three. story brick, and it
has enough bedrooms so that each of the Chief
Justices eight daughters could have room to
herself and leave enough guest chambers to
spare. 1t has magnificent parlors and a tine
library and the dining-room is one of the largest
at the Capital, Further on is the new home of
Frances Hodgson Burnett, which she got at a
bargain not long ago for $25,OOO, and in the same
block is the house which Senator Cullom built.
In the next block Secretary Window lives. His
house is big brownstone, thirty-four feet front.
1t is only few years old and / think MIR. Win
dom is the first occupant. In entering it you
come into wide hall, on one side of which is the
library and on the other a reception-room. The
dining-room is very large and well lighted. One
side of it is oval, and it is finished out in quar-
tered red oak The library is finished in San Do
mIngo mahogany, and the furnishings of the
whole house are magnificent. Just across the
way from this house is the home of Mrs Justice
Miller, which will probably be sold now that her
husband has died leaving her in comparatively
destitute circumstances, and just above Win
dom's is plain red brick in which Justice Lamar
lives.
Senator Henderson is living this winter in a
very comfortable house near Scott Circle. 1t
is a big red brick just above the home of Mrs.
Gen. Sheridan. A great deal of taste has been
displayed in the furnishing of it, and the dining
room has many elegant pieces of old mahogany.
The parlor contains many pretty pieces of bric-a-
brac and furniture which Mrs. Henderson has
picked up in her travels and among other things
is a wonderful little clock, whose chimes are the
sweetest music you will hear in Sabbath days
journey.
THEY LIVE AT HOTELS.
Speaker Reed will continue TO live at the
Shoreham, and number of the other members
have taken up their quarters at hotels, Repre-
sentative Hit has his old house on the corner OF
Fifteenth and X streets, and Representative
Bynum is living on Nineteenth street, net Tar Off
from Mrs. Hearst's residence. Representative
Bayne, of Pennsylvania has a very fine white
stone house ON Massachusetts avenue near Scott's
statue and in the house beside him lives Gen.
built about three years ago. They are of white