Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-28

cause. When Senator Sanderson was
here during the recent Inauguration, he
demonstrated his keen interest in our
affairs by ordering The Sunday Star
sent to him each week in Providence.
The corner lot, or lot 4, which COM
prised part of the ground upon which
the Ebbitt House stood, and upon the
eastern part of which stood the Crau-
furd, or Crawford, residence, was bought
by David Craufurd from the United
States commissioners in 1893. He lived
here only few years after erecting
what at that time was a very nice
home, for his will was probated on May
81, 1901. BY this will lot IA went to
his grandson, Julius Forrest, together
with one Negro woman named Bet and
her two children, Charles and Maria,
and such other female issue as might
be born unto her.
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IN the division Of lots in this parcel
by the commissioners in 1892 lots -
and ID went to David Burnes. These
lots, which are both on the Fourteenth
street side, adjoin on the south the
corner lot. David Burnes died intes-
tate and his daughter, Marcia Burnes,
later Mrs. Van Ness. being his only
TIC DIOEcIIy WIS luIlGTlbcQ Dy
her. In 1902 Marcia Burnes trans
ferred lot 10 to David Dorsey, who on
August 2. 1907, decided the north Is
feet to Richard Forrest, and September
90, 1907, the south "a feet and inches
to John Murdoch. In 1924 Richard
Forrest decided his Is feet Of lot 10 to
Julius Forrest, and in 1857, through the
heirs of Julius Forrest and by default
under a trust by one of the grantees,
lots ID and IA were transferred to VIII
liam Ebbitt.
Lot IL went from Marcia Burnes to
David Dorsey, then to John Murdoch,
who transferred title to William Blanch-
ard, whose daughter, Jane Franham,
inherited it in 1850, and who sold her
interest to Caleb Willard, August 4,
1866. Title to lot IS. which adjoins the
corner lot on the F street side, was
transferred by the commissioners In
1902 to the heirs of Walter Stewart.
In 1917 John Hoge transferred this lot
for the heirs to Thomas T. Stephenson.
The latter held it two years and decided
1t to Thomas Triplet, who in turn sold
the lot on April 10, 1925, to Gideon
Beall, who on the same date decided 1t
to Richard Wallach, Mayor Of Wash
ingten from 1861 to 1867 Wallach
sold TO johnson HELEN, and Caleb Will
lard was vested with title through va
rious deeds dated March 80, 1868.
These four lots, IL, ID, ID and IS,
comprise the ground upon which the
Ebbitt House stood. The Press Club
Building includes other lots or parts Of
lots in addition to these. In describing
an old photograph before the Columbia
Historical Society some Is years ago,
John B. Larner told his audience that
the Ebbitt was composed of four dwell
tngs and that prior TO 1855 here was
conducted what was known as the
Frenchman's Hotel, which was quite
likely kept by a Frenchman as the
name would imply. After this date,
William e. Ebbitt kept a boarding
house here and in this way it came to
be known as the Ebbitt House. Mr..
Larner also adds history to It's title by
telling us that, In 1863, Mr.. Ebbitt
transferred his ownership to his son-in-
law, Albert H. Craney, who, the follow
ing year, conveyed the property to c. C.
Willard
The early residents of this corner had