The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-16
SIuUe Quarters on old Gusts Place
RenOdeLed Into Quaint Guest House
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Pitt
Ca mpbell's Son and
Daughter-in-Law First
Occupants; An o t h er
Mansion Restored

The fine wide winged old
red brick house browning a
hillside in nearby Virginia
and looking off across the
Potomac toward Washington,
which is now the permanent
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Philip
Pitt Campbell, boasts pic
tI1resoue addition. Under
Mr.. Campbell's careful and
discriminating direction, the
old slave quarters on the
place, which dates from
Revolutionary days and was
one of the Custis properties,
have been transformed into
q charming guest house
Just In time to become the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Camp
bells son and daughter-in-
law, Lieut.. Comdr. and Mrs.
Colin Campbell, who have
come to Washington for two
year period, of shore duty.
Studying Law
Lieutenant Commander Camp
bell is now attached to the
office of the Judge Advocate
General of the Navy and IS
taking a law course at George
Washington University. He
was married some three years
ago in New York to Mrs. Mar
raret Topliffe Hewitt and his
charming wife has been a fire.
uuent visitor at the Campbell
home while he has been on sea
duty. Now the junior Camp
bells are here to stay, for .
while at least, and although
thew are still more or less in
the camping-out stage, they will
have a very charming home
when their own things arrive
and are installed.
Glorious View
Their little house boasts the
same glorious view, which, with
its ancient trees, its box hedges,
and its air Of OId-World stability,
makes the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Philip Pitt Campbell one of the
most charming in the vicinity OF
washington. Between the man.
sion ana the guest house is q
quaint brlcked kitchen garden.
and the latter has a flag-paved
porch overlooking the river. With
IN are a living room and dining
room, an engaging small kitchen,
and above two bedrooms and q
sleeping porch. The rooms have all
been restored In the Colonial man
ner and Mr.. Campbell secured
Virginia, Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania to find just the right type
Of old-fashfoned locks, with great
bronze keys, for the quaint doors.
The Campbell Girls
A few years ago there was
scarcely. party given In Wash
ington without at least one Of the
pretty Campbell girls in attend.
ence. They are all married now
and only the former Miss Eliza
beth Campbell, now Mrs. Burdette
Shields Wright, makes her home
In Washington. Since his resigna-
ton from the Air Service, Major
Wright has q post with the Cur
tiss-Wright people. with hesdqusr-
ters here, and he and his wife have
one Of the charming old houses in
Georgetown.
Miss Dorothy Campbell married
into the Navy and she and her
husband, Lieut.. Comdr. Benjamin
Stacey KillmasteF, are at present
living in Charleston. S. C. Mrs.
Robert Kleberg, who was Miss
Helen Campbell. makes her home
at the Santa Gertrudis Ranch in
Texas. 1t belongs to her husba nd's
grandmother, Mrs King, and is
said to be the largest ranch in
the world.
Philip Pitt Campbell, who is now
practising law in Washington, Ions
represented Kansas constituency
IN Congress and from his likeness
70 Disraeli, was one of the pic
turesque figures up on the Hill"
They tell & story Of his retirement
from public life which is amusing
ii true. i was shortly after hs