Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19

| NlghtS time are Associate Justice Andrew
| c. Bradley, Andrew B. Duvall, R. Ross
| Perry, F. B. Mcclure; the sons of James
! Y. Davis, James Y. and Samuel T., are
| among those who represent the business
| L. s. N, Commander Martin f. Hall, L. S.
| N; Col. McLane Tilton, L. S. NJ. c.. Major
| Richard Walach, {. S. NJ. c., and Major
Frank E. Taylor, L. S. A, represent the
military service.
Homes of Public Men.
Adjoining these two houses is the home,
now numbered 3OS of Mrs. Virginia Whit
| tlesey, widow of Comfort S. Whittlesey.
1t was first occupied by him in 1919 1850,
and it was still his home when he died. in
| June 1S6l The house has remained I'M
changed until now. and Mrs Whttlesey
has retained her home there since her
husbands death.
Mr. WhittIesey had for many years an
extensive business in paints, oils, lamps,
etc. his store having been located next
| to the southeast corner, or on that corner,
of 1th and d streets northwest, where there
has been carpet and furniture store in
more recent years
Next to this house is a row of five houses,
built in 1858 by the late Thomas Blagden.
William Baldwin. one of Almon Baldwin's
sons already referred to, was the archi-
tect of these houses, and they We're known,
when originally built, as Biagden's row.
think this name to some extent Is still re-
tanned. Robert Toombs of Georgia. at that
time United States senator, occupied one
of these houses, and also Chief Justice Ia
ney; also the minister from Peru to this
country. In comparatively recent years
Senator Christiancy of Michigan was an
occupant of one of the houses.
The second door west from this row,
now numbered 322, was once the property
OF Rev. Horace Stringfellow, and early in
the sos he sold it to James NJ. Torbert,
who made his home there for nearly thirty
years, up to the time of his death in 1850.
l,;r
bered 324, is the one built by the late
Franck Taylor in 1858, and has been the
family home since 1860 Since the death
of Mr.. Taylor, July II, 1913. one of his
daughters, the wife of Rear Admiral Rob-
ley D. Evans, continued with her mother
to make her home there, and it is still
her home, Mrs. Taylor having died Novem-
Der 80, 1892.
The Muddy Streets.
One of my most distinct recollections OF
the muddy condition of the streets in this
city at that time, and, as we all know,
for many years after, Is associated with
the fiagstone crossings, one about in front
OF Mr.. Taylor's house and the other con-
Meeting the two sides of the street at Sd.
After a rainy spell or few days of thaw-
ing weather it was not possible even with
careful stepping on these fagstones to get
through the mud without having the soles
OF the shoes well covered, and, of course,
crossing on other than these fagstones,
mud would cover the shoe almost to the
instep.
WelI-Known Names.
Where the two dwellings numbered 1876
and 32S Indiana avenue now stand there
were before Mr.. Taylor built his home, two
one-story frame buildings, owned by Rob-
ert Beale, one of the old residents on Capt.
toll HILL One of them was occupied
by Mr.. Andrew McCalla, lawyer, who
died many years ago. His brother, the late
DR.. John McCalla, will be remembered by
many in more recent years His widow, a
daughter of the late Silas P Hill, is still a
resident of this city. The other of these
buildings was occupied by Mr.. Samuel l..
Phillips in 1850, when he first commenced
the practice of his profession of law. The
home of the McCalla family adjoined these
offices. but in recent years different style
of house with bay-window front has re-
placed the original dwelling.
Next door to the McCalla home Mr..
Charles S. Wallach lived early in the
fifties and II was there he died some years
ago. Two of his three sons-the eldest of
whom, Richard, j remember more distinct
ly-were still residents of this city at the
time Of their death, about six or seven
years ago.
Next to Mrs. Eliza Peyton, whose home
adjoined Mr.. Wallachs, there still
standing two houses, one of which has been
used for office for several years. They are
now numbered 336 and 1913, and have re-
IndlNeu uUcndISeu since DulIl-
No 336 of these two houses was built by
the late General Peter Bacon more than
sixty years ago, and 1t was his home from
the time it was completed until his death.
on the Sth of April, 1900 Mrs. Bacon,
daughter of DR. Edward Clark, was born
at the navy yard in this city. and died in
the old home, May 10, 1897, aged nearly sew
enty-nine years. The younger daughter
continued to live there for while after
her fathers death, when its history as the
home of the Bacon family ended. General
Bacon was a Washingtonian by birth and
was nearly eighty-seven years of age when
he died. His father came to America from
England when the seat of government was
established here, and started grocery bust
ness on the southeast corner of 18th street
and Pennsylvania avenue, to which General
Bacon, with his brother, Samuel Bacon,
succeeded about 1910, and which was con-
tinued by them for more than fifty years.
Gen. BacOn's neXt-door neighbor (house
nov numbered $3.50 was my uncle, Eben l..
Chids. who had his home there for nearly
twenty years prior to the close Of the war.
This house was built about the same time
as the Bacon house, by DR.. w. NJ. c. Du-
hamel. Mr.. Chlds was born in Charles
town. Mass. in May, 1900.
Mr.. Childs' neighbOr, for a few years
prior to 1866 was the late Rev. Byron
Sunderland, and lived there again for
while after his return from a residence in
Paris. This house, built by Blagden,
though closely adjoining the Chlds house,
is the first one d street east from 4th
street. Wnlle IIlOSe located east OF IL are on
Indiana avenue.
Mr.. Fendall's Home.
On the southeast corner of D and AZ
NOW John Marshall place., where the Fen
dali law building now stands was the
home of Philip Ricard Fendall for twenty
five years, until his death, in February, 1868,
The present structure on this. site dates
from 1886.
House numbered 307 D street, which over
looks the statue Of Albert Pike, that was
unveiled last October, was built for the
late James Vaudeville Carlisle during the
year 1852. 1t is a plain front. press brick
structure. three stories in height, with an
extension on the west Of two stories, sit
ting back from the building line, the first
floor of which Mr.. Carlisle used as an Office
Here he continued to have his home and
office from the time the house was COM
pieted until his death in 1877, at which
time he had been a resident of the city for
fifty-two years, Until the spring of 1887
there was only one house between Mr.. Car
Isles house and Sd street, which l very
well remember was occupied during the
ten years prior to 1860 by the Rev. c. NJ