Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-25
PLACES OF INTEREST.
Historic Sites Referred to by Old Resi-
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denter.
THAT listref historic places in the Dis
trict of Columbia as furnished by an in
augural committee and printed IN The Star
was very Interesting in its nature said
Mr.. T. V. Noonan,, an old resident, to
Star reporter day or two ago. tt re-
called to my mind the fact that a number
of places not mentioned would also prove
of interest to readers of The Star and the
few other .Washingtonians who do not
make habit of doing so.
For instance, the office of the quarter
master general, u. 8. A, at one time Oc-
cupied the site of what is now the Riggs
House. The chief commissary of the Army
of the Potomac had his Office in the old
Concoran Art Gallery building, now the
Court of Claims.
THE office of the depot quartermaster,
Army of the Potomac, Major d. H. Rucker,
was located at the southeast corner of 18th
and G streets northwest, the former resi-
dence of Edward Everett.
ION 18th street, east side, and a little
north of G street, stood the smithing shop
of Rapply & Bozzle where two-thirds of
the horses and mules that came here for
the army were shod and fitted out for serv-
ice. At the southwest corner of Pennsyl-
vania avenue and 22d street, now the site
of Willige's saloon, stood the smithery of
Dan Myers, where about the other third Of
the horses and mules were shod.
THE great embalming plant of Doctors
side of Louisiana avenue between 9th and
10th streets-nearer to 9th street-where IS
per cent of the bodies of soldiers killed at
.he front and who died in local hospitals
were embalmed. The old houses still stand,
and the firm name of Holmes & Brown
can still be made out. Just above this
point and about midway of the block stood
the old Central Guard House; while at the
corner of 10th street. and also fronting b
street, stood the gasometer of the Wash
ipgton Gas Light Company, and where aft
erward stood the machine shops of the late
John McCleland. AT the northwest of
Pennsylvania avenue and AZ street was
the celebrated boarding house of Mrs Pey-
ton The Hotel Reuter- now stands on the
site. 1t was Johnathan Cilley-not Gilley-
that lived at 219 Sd street northwest. He
was afterward killed in duel. The WASH
ington Assembly rooms, near the District
building, was in civil war times called Can
terbury Hall-now a vacant lot.
1.-The first regiment that camped in Frank
lin Square was the 18th New York. Col.
Butterfield. After them came the Goth
New York, Col Corcoran, and after the
Goth left camp to build Fort Corcoran back
of Rosslyn, Va, came the 10Th New York,
the Highlanders, Col. Cameron The pat
ent office hospital was the G street wing of
the present structure, at which hospital the
celebrated DR.. Mary Walker made her first
appearance as an army nurse. The great
Campbell Hospital was located in the west
ern portion of the present LIE Droit Park,
taking in the north side of old Boundary
road, now Florida avenue, together with
T. Spruce and Elm streets The western
limits were about the point where the Cur
ley Church now stands. Booths alley-the
one where the assassin gall0ped out on his
way to the navy yard bridge after he had
killed the great acknowledgements into F
street. Just alongside of the National Union |
Insurance Companyis building.
Gales Hospital was located on the site |
of the present. w ashingten College for Girls, |
lexington, and the new building is almost
similar in appearance to the old mansion of |
Joseph Gales, of the National Intelligencer
Ripp Island was off the foot of 18th street, |
at the mouth of the old canal, where it en-
tered the city on It's eastward course The
old stone house FACING northward at the i
foot of 18th street. and which Is now used
as a sort of an office for the Potomac fats |
improvements was formerly the lock-keep-
the lock which let the coal boats into the |
city part of the canal The Globe Hotel, on |
Ohio avenue between 14th and 18th streets, |
is still standing. and is now used as negro |
tenements Across the way from the Cos
mos Club-now the fRaggett drug store and
offices--was the residence of Commodore
Stewart of tie old navy, and on Sd street
northwest, on, the west side, is the mansion
of Admiral Powell of the old navy
House No. 1875 street northwest was
erected for Jefferson Davis. where he lived
gut apartment house now stands corner
18th and l. was the old homestead of Gen
McComb, engineer Office of the old army
and on F street between 18th and 18th. but
nearer the latter street stood the residence
of Gen. Jessup of the old army. No. 1904
or 1406 n street northwest, the old painted
front. was the home of Gen. Winfield Scott
in the first period of the civil war. Gen.
Scott also lived In the Chain house. H
street. where now is located the Fredonia
Hotel The first military funeral of any
within the first six months OF the war was
that Of Gen. Davenport who was killed at
the front. His body was carried down the
an artillery caisson. formed around which |
was a hollow square. and several COM
paraies OF soldiers marching in the rear