The Washington herald., 1917-03-05

1 Presidents Roosevelt and Tart, who
went down with the Titanic, resided In
this house. Now the home Of Senator
4 Underwood.
| No, iSe Raiorama, near corner OF
3 street and Phelps place. Joel Bar
low. poet and patriot, resided here.
Count Rumford and Robert Fulton were
visitors here.
No lsi.-Museum Of Hygiene. Corner Of
Twenty-third and Il streets. In this
building. formerly the U. 8, Naval OBJ
ssrvatory. are placed on exhimbition ap-
ervation and protection OF human life,
! No. ls2-NoFtheast corner fwenty-fiFst
and ! streets Lafayette was q guest
In the Franklin Hotel. which stood on
this site, In Is2a. Andrew Jackson and
other prominent Americans were also
guests s,
No. lkS-o street, between Twenty-sey-
enth and Twenty-etghth streets, Rit-
tenhouse home, This house, originally
called Bellevue, was built about I7bo.
II became the home Of Joseph Nourse,
the FIRST Register OF the Treasury. Wash.
Iinston was frequent guest here.
| No. lH-sots NJ street. In this house
was the once Of Major Charles EBnfant,
who made the Arst plan OF the city
OF Washington.
No. l5S-aots NJ street Headauartsrs Of
Ing the District Of Columbia
No. is-southeast corner Of Potomac
and o streets. 81, Johns Church. Presi-
dents Jefferson and Madison were fire.
qusnt worshipers In this church which
was dedicated In 1909. =
No. MO and Potomac streets. st.
Johns churehyard. Beali Boulder. Ded-
ieated to Ninian Beali, patsntss Of Rock
Of punearton," the site Of Georgetown.
member Of the Maryland House Of
Burgessss, and Q distinguished Indian
fighter who was voted an "Act OF Ora
tuity" by the Maryland Assembly In
less, Erected by the Society Of Colonial
Wars. 1910,
No. iSs-Tudor Place. This heuss. de-
signed by William Thornton, was built
about 1905 by Thomas Peter. who mar.
from whom came many heiriooms Of
the Washington family, Lafayette and
other distinguished guests have been en-
tertained here. It is said TO have been
the last place visited IN Washington
by Robert E. Lee
No. iBs-North side Of NJ street, between
ThiFty-thlrd and rhirty-tourth. site Of
| Bank Of Columbia" first bank (estab-
lished In 1TSsD within the limits of the Dis
trict OF Columbia. ....
No. 16D-Corner Of Prospect avenue and
Thirty-fouFth street Col. BENJAMIN Stod-
dert, who, under President Adams, was
first Secretary Of the Navy, resided In a
house on this site.
No. lsl-ss1s N street, near Aqusduct
Bridge. Key Mansion, Francis Scott
Key author OF THE Star-Spangled Ban
uer," resided in a house on this site.
No. 162-Southwest corner OF Thirty
sixth street and Prospect avenue, Mrs.
E, d, z. n. Southworth, suthoress, re-
sided and died in this house.
No. 1S3-Corner of Thirty-sixtH and P
streets, Georgetown University. This in
stitution, founded in 1853. Is the Oldest
and largest Jesuit institution OF learning
in this country. has a museum of historic
objects and the first astronomical OBJ
servatory erected In the District Of Co
lumbia.
No. Esmithsenian Park. facing Ninth
street. memorial to Andrew Jackson
Downing dsi5-5O, q landscape gardener,
who laid out the parks between the Capt.
| tol and the Potomac River, the White
House Park, and Lafayette Square. He
was the author Of standard books on
Pomology.
No. 1s5-Potemac Park In this VI
cinity, on the axis Of the Washington
Monument and the Capitol, Is being con-
structed the Lincoln Memorial.
No. 466-SpeedwaY, Near this site was
a large boulder, known a. the Key Of
! Keys, where, according TO tradition, Brad
dock landed at the beginning of his ex-
peditIon to Fort Duquesne inN1765.
No. l67-lSth and NJ streets. National
Geographic Society, organized, 1sSS,, for
the diffusion Of geographic knowledge.
No. 16s-237 Pennsylvania avenue. Walt
Whitman boarded In this house.
No. 169-ld22 Vermont avenue. James
Wilson (Scotland), for sixteen years Sec
! retary of Agriculture, at one time lived
in this house.
No, 170-21O7 Pennsylvania avenue. First
navy office, 1900 (Benjamin Stoddard,
! Secretary of the Navy, was in this
! house.
No. 171-3l5 John Marshall place Senator
John T. Morgan TeRn). lived in this
house.
No. 172-14O7 Massachusetts, avenue.
Right Rev. Henry Y. satterlee IN. W,
first Protestant Episcopal Bishop OF
Washington. lived and died in this house
No. 17a-The Portland, Thomas Circle.
J. Sterling Norton IN. ", originator of
"Arbor Day. and Secretary of Agrieul-
ture, resided here.
No. I7l-1les X street. John @. Carlisle
(KyO Speaker of the House II Represent
atives, United States Senator, and Secre-
tary of the Treasury, lived in this house.
No. l7s-21o6 Pennsyivania avenue. Dr.
William Z. Magruder, mayor of Washing
ton in 1867, lived and died in this house.
No. 1s-Northeast corner Of Eighteenth
and Q streets, In this house lived and
died John Lee Carroll, former governor
Of Maryland.
No. l1-1627 Massachusetts, avenue
Senator Zebulon B. Vance IN. c., lived
in this house,
No. I7S-Rast Side of Wisconsin avenue,
south of NJ street near site of Grace r.
f. Church. Here stood Suffers tavern
where on March 80. 1871. the owners Of
the land comprised within the original
City of Washington, met George Wash
ingtoR and ceded the Federal Territory.
Here also met the Commissioners, Gen.
Thomas Johnson, DR.. David Stuart and
Daniel Carroll. September ., 1fs1, and
agreed that the territory selected should