Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-03
OF HISTORIC INTEREST.
Sites Marked for Benefit of Visitors
to the City.

opportunity for sightseeing while in the
| city an inaugural committee has marked
| many of the historic sites throughout the
District in an appropriate manner. They
are located follows:
| sos D street northwest-Daniel Webster
resided in this house.
| Northeast corner I and 18th streets north
west-Senator Simon Cameron. Secretary
| of War, 1851 81. resided in this house.
| Vermont avenue between NJ and streets
| NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Church. President
| Garfield attended services here.
Northeast corner Sd street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue, ST Charles Hotel-Vice Presi-
| dent Hannibal Hamlin resided in this house.
1923 H street near nth street northwest
| George Bancroft the historian, resided In
! this house.
Northwest corner OF Vermont avenue and
| H street MISUNDERSTANDING Charles sum
ner OF Massachusetts, resided in this house.
Tenth street between and f streets
northwest-Ford Theater. In this build
| ing President Lincoln was assassnated.
1851 Pennsylvania avenue northwest
montgomery Blair. Postmaster General
1S61-64, resided in this house.
Northwest corner and 9th streets hortn-
west-Chief Justice Salmon 2. Chase resid-
ed in this house.
No. 516 10th street northwestern this
house President Lincoln died April 10. 1860.
Northwest corner Pennsylvania avenue
and 10Th street-Residence of Presidents
Madison and Monroe during restoration OF
White House after war of 1872
Center Of south side of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. in front of White House-Site of re-
viewing stand before which passed the
armies of the United States in May, 1855.
No. 1712 II street northwest-Site OF the
house where Admiral Porter resided.
No. 1882 Pennsylvania avenue northwest
Site of the house where Gen. Winfield Scott
resided.
Northeast corner Rhode Island avenue and
18th street nOrthweSt-General sheridan re-
sided in this house.
H street and Madison place; Cosmos CluD
Home of Dolly Madison, widow OF the
President: later home of Admiral wilkes,
also headquarters of Gen. George b. Nc
Clellan.
Madison place: Lafayette Square Theater
Site of residence of Secretary OF State
Seward, in which his life was attempted
April 1865; later home of James G. Blaine.
No. 1923 K street northwest-EdWln M
Stanton, Secretary of War. resided and died
| in this house.
Northeast corner G and 14th streets north
west-Site of Foundry Church. where Presi-
dent Hayes attended. Erected as thank
offering by Foxhall, whose foundry escaped
destruction in the war of 1872.
Southwest corner of and 4th streets
northwest-Metrop olitan Methodist Church
Here Bishop Newman preached. Gen. Grant
Gen. Logan, Secretary Chase and later
President Mckinley attended service
Foot of 18th street NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
of Gen, Van Ness, who married the daugh-
ter of Davy Burns, original owner of the
ground now occupied by White House,
Treasury, and State, War and Navy De-
partmentS.
The Key Mansion.
NJ street near Aaueduct bridge, George
town, Key mansion.-Francis Scott Key.
author of THE Star Spangled Banner re-
sided in this house.
No. 3O51 M street northwest, Georgetown
(old stone house, .-Headquarters of George
Washington in 1871, when surveying the
District of Columbia.
f street between 18th and 18th streets
northwest.-Henry Clay resided in this
house.
New York avenue and 18th street north
west octagon house-President Madison re-
sided here after the burning Of the White
House by the British in 1914
East side of 18th street between E and F
streets northwest, near the center of the
square now occupied by the land office
Site of the first telegraph office in the
United States, opened and operated by S.
F. 3. Morse in 1874
No. 30S c street northwest.-Site of the
| home of Francis Scott Key, author of the
Star Spangled Banner
No. 1865 f street northWeSt.-Site of the
home of Aaron Burr.
No. 900 14th street NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Davis resided in this house.
H street and New York avenue.-New
\ Ork Avenue presbyterian Cnurcn, Wnere
Presidents John Quincy Adams, Andrew
Jackson, James Buchanan, Abre ham Lin
coin and Andrew Johnson attended serv-
ice.
nue. and John Marshall Place.-Ste of Mrs.
Peyton's boarding house. where John c.
Calhoun, Henry Clay. Robert Y. Hayne and
Henry A. Wise resided.
West side of 18th street northwest be-
tween D and E street, opposite Odd Eel
lows Hall.-Site of Office of National Era,
in which Uncle Toms Cabin was originally
published, In 1S51-52.
Northwest corner 18th and D streets,
| where Harris jewery store stands.-Site of
the Office of National Intelligencer
Northwest corner of I'd street and Mary
land avenue northeast.-The place where
the only armed defense was made against
the invasion Of the British in 1914.
1925 street northwest-Ste of the Brit
ish legation, where Owen Meredith Is said
to have written Lucille"
Southwest corner of 36th and Prospect
streets-Mrs. E. D. e. n. Southworth re-
sided and died In this house.
Southeast corner of Maryland avenue and
LIST street northeast-Site of the old Capitol
building, where President Monroe was in
augurated in 1877.
Pennsylvania avenue and 9th street
northwest National HoteD-In this build
ing Henry Clay died on June % 1852
Northeast corner of and 18th streets
northwest-Sfte of the first United States
branch bank.
pennsylvania avenue between 9th and
It'll streets northwest metropolitan HoteD
The site of Browns Hotel, where Kossuth
and his suite were entertained In 1851
Southeast corner of LIST and East CAPITOL
streets-Site of building occupied as head
quarters by General Ross and Admiral
Cockburn on August "a, 1914.
Northeast corner of 10Th and G streets
northwestern this site was the home of
Matthew F. Maury, the famous geographic
No. 1900 Massachusetts avenue north
west-The residence Of Vice President
Charles w. Fairbanks
Bryan's Former Home.
No 131 B street southeast-WilIiam l.
Bryan resided In this house.
No 1921 F street northwest-Henry R.
Schoolcraft. the distinguished ethnologist
lived in this house
Northeast corner Of New Hampshire ave-
nue. and Corcoran street-Admiral Samson
lived IN this house and died here.
pennsylvania avenue and 9Th street (Na-
tional HoteD-Alexander H. Stephens of
Georgia resided In this house
No. 40 9th street Observation-Disclosures
X. Shepherd was born in this house
Northwest corner of Pennsylvania avenue
and I'd street-On this site was the first
railway station in Washington.
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