Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02

the grocery store of Benjamin S. Baiy;
Thomas Bowen tailor; William Owner, board
ing house; Mrs Nelson, boarding house; David
. Stewart, coach maker; Mrs. Windhams female
boarding house; and c. McCormicks apothecary
and drug store, at the northeast corner of
Third street and Pennsylvania avenue.
John Simon, who sold the depot building
to the Baltimore 81 Ohio Railroad Co.,
had q tailor shop on Pennsylvania avenue
Just to the west of Third street
ION the east side of Third street just above
the Avenue was James Birth stonecutter, the
father Of William w. Birth, who continued the
same business for many years and lived TO
reach almost hundred years.
Just opposite on Third street was the resi-
dence Of Joseph Elgar, at that time commits
Sioner Of public grounds. At the northeast
corner of Third and B streets, Edward Ingle,
hardware merchant.
ION street between Second and Third
streets were Col Watson, land agent; Lund
Washington, congressional reporter; John G..
Robinson, house carpenter; Charles Keller ma
chinist in Patent once; Thomas Dom, coach
maker; Thomas Bowen, tailor, and w. II.
Campbell, hardware merchant.
ION Second street between the Avenue and
O street were Lewis Club messenger in the
United States Senate: Richard Dement,,
clerk In general Post Office and Ignatius
Wheatley, Waterman at the Capitol who was
on B street between First and Second streets"
A FTER the old station was abandoned In
1851 by the railway company the corner
of Second street and Pennsylvania avenue was
used for a time as saloon. Later it was pur-
chased by Matthew G. Emery, who in 1869
erected new building on the site Of the old
one, as viii be seen by the account published
in The Star of october 4, 1869, which reads:
GAN OLD LANDMARK GIVES WAY
TO A FINE IMPROVEMENT IN 1869.
"The erection of new building on the north
side OF Pennsylvania avenue near Tiber creek,
between Second and Third streets, CELEBRATES
an old landmark.
Mr.. M. G. Emery is building at that point
four-story presSed-brick front, with three
story back building, fronting 19 feet Penn
sylvania avenue by q depth of 40 feet, to be
finished with stone caps and sills throughout.
The first story will be fitted up as a capacious
store, and the entire building viii have all the
modern convenienceS. The cost of the build
ing will be about $1,000.
ITO make room for this Improvement Mr.
Emery is having torn down q building with
the history of which many OF our citizens are
unfamiliar.
1T was here that the depot of the Wash
ington branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road was first established. The building now
being demolished was erected over forty years
ago, and afterward fell into the possession of
John Simon a well known tailor, from whom
it was purchased by the Baltimore g. Ohio
Railroad Co. for $4,000 and converted into a
depot"
From Mr.. Tophams story it is cleaned that
houses Nos. 2O1 and 203 Pennsylvania avenue
are built the foundation walls of the old
depot and he further says:
THE old brick car house was in the rear
ON square No. STA, back from the corner Of
and End streets.
This historical remnant of the original
depot is standing today, nearly ninety years
after its construction, and can be seen half
way up the alley running north from B street
between 1st and End streets northwest.
IN 1899. when Matthew G. Emery erected
the old Census Office Building which still
stands in the block between First and Second
and B and streets another old landmark
was removed. 1t was the original Washington
freight station of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road and was RACED by workmen under the
direction Of Mr.. Maurice F. Tally. It stood in
the southern part Of the block the old District
Building-later the Business High School