The Washington herald., 1909-03-03

Church-Here Bishop Newman preached
and here Gen Grant, Gen. Logan, Sec
retary Chase. President Mckinley, and
Vice President Fairbanks attended serv-
ice.
Was Home of Statesmen.
g. Northwest corner OF Pennsylvania ave
nue and John Marshall place-Site Of
Mrs Peyton's clearinghouse. where
John c. Calhoun. Henry Clay. Robert
7 Hayne. and Henry A Wise resided.
3 sS7 Missouri svenus-John Tyler resid-
ed here before he became President.
p. Washington Assembly Rooms. LOuiSi-
ana avenue. opposite Fifth street-0n
this site the inaugural ball Of President
William H Harrison was held in 1871.
80 Sixth and 3 streets-Site OF station Of
Pennsylvania Railroad, where President
Garfield was shot
81 Pennsylvania avenue and Sixth street
National Hotei)-In thu building Hen
~ Clay died on June g. is52
g Pennsylvania avenue and Sixth street
National HoteD Alexander H Ste
phens. Of Georgia. resided in this house.
g Pennsylvania avenue. between Sixth
and Seventh streets metropolitan Ho-
teD-The site OF Browns Hotel. where
Kossuth and his suite we're entertained
in IS52
81 Northwest corner z and Sixth streets
Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase resided
IN this house
z5 500 street-Caleb Cushing resided
here
Ss. 6is E street-In this house lived John
c. Calhoun. Vice President OF the Unit
ed States during 1858
81. S14 F street-Thonas L. Waiter, archi-
tect Of the Capitol. resided in this house.
s8. United States Patent Once (model
room)-The second inaugural ball OF
President Lincoln was held tere IN 1865.
81 West side Of Seventh street. between
E and F streets. 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. T. B. Morse in 1874
40 North side Of E street between Sew
enth and Eighth streets-On this site
was Blodget's Hotel. where In 1914 Con-
gress convened.
Il z27 Seventh street. opposite Odd Fell
lows H7ll--Sife OF National Era, IN
which Uncle Toms Cabin was origi-
naliy published during IS51-52
. Northwest corner Seventh and D
streets-Site Of Office OF National Intelli-
gencer.
z3 Washington Barracks, foot Of -Four
and-a-Hslf street southwest-Origina
the site Of an Indian council camp. sub
seQuently an arsenal. and now the site
OF the Army War College.
a. United States National BIuseum-The
inaugural bail OF President Garfield was
held in this building IN 1851
Is. Smithsonian Institution, east front
Joseph Henry, the first Secretary OF the
Smithsonian Institution, resided in this
building
Site of Old Long Bridge.
IS, Long Bridge. foot OF Fourteenth street
southwest-During the civil war the
bridge, then here. was the principal
military route 10 the South.
&. SlS z street-James Buchanan resided
here before he became President.
s. 7l3 Ninth street. between G and H
streets-Alexander R. Shepherd lived in
house on this site.
S9. Public Library. New York avenue. be-
tween Seventh and Ninth streets-This
building. the gift OF Andrew Carnegie
contains the Washington City Public
Library
q. 80 n street-John y. Powell, explorer.
geologist. and ethnologist lived in this
house
81 SIS Tenth street-In this house. May L.
1883. the first public meeting Of the sur
vivOrs Of the war with Spain was held.
resulting in the formation Of the Span
ish War Veterans Association.
s. Tenth street, between z and F streets.
formerly Ford's TheateF-Tn this build
ing President Lincoln vas shot, April
Il. 1856
s. SIS Tenth street-In this house Presi-
dent Lincoln died, April Is, ISs5- Il con-
tains memorial collection.
81. Northeast corner OF Tenth and D
streets-Peter Force. who compiled the
American archives, resided on this site
$. Eleventh street in the rear OF Har-
vey's restaurant Site Of Carusi's Hall
Inaugural balls OF Presidents Van Bu-
ren QsS0, Polk dS45}. Taylor ds4s), |
Pierce QSS3), and Buchanan CS50 were /
held here.
S. Pennsylvania avenue and Twelfth
street CRaleigh HoteD-SIte Of the Kirk /
wood House Here Vice President An /
drew Johnson resided and was sworn IN (
as President
8 so Twelfth street-Ceorge s. Boutwell, /
Senator from Massachusetts. and Secre- /
tary Of the Treasury, and John a. Lo-
gan, Senator from Illinois, resided in 1
this house.
s. Southwest corner Of Pennsylvania ave
nue. and Thirteenth street-On this site
was the Prescott House, used as a pris- I
on for political offenders during the /
early days OF the civil war.
g. National Theater. E street. between /