Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20

the Willis dwelling was between Linwood place
and Fourteenth street.
T Up the west end of street is the old building
of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
which occupied in part the site of the old
Artillery Corral, and which was completed
nearly so years ago. An old and interesting
statement printed at the time of its completion
gives a brief and yet good description of what
then regarded as an ideal plant for the
making of Uncle Sans legal tender. The
account tells us that
THE new building of the Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing of the Treasury Department,
the erection of which was authorized by the
act of Congress of 1873, stands in the vicinity
of the washington Monument (now being COM
pleted) and near the Agricultural Department
on line with the Smithsonian Institution and
on the Mall leading to the Capitol The style
of architecture is Romanesque. 1t is 900 feet
long by 135 feet in width. The north facade,
which faces the city, consists of a basement
and three stories, surmounted by an artistic
cornice, and is broken by three paVilionS, that
at the northeast corner rising into a belfry
tower 100 feet in height. The south front of
the building, which overlooks the Potomac is
broken by several chimneys of architectural de-
sign, and presents quite an imposing appear
ance. The west chimney is designed to carry
off the fumes from the hardening rooms, and
is built with massive walls to resist the action
of the acids used in hardening the plates. The
elevator towers are also of beautiful design.
The stack from the boiler rooms in the rear of
the building is 100 feet high, and is magnih-
cent piece of brckwork
THE material of which the building is con-
Structed is pressed brick above the basement,
with string courses Of nodded brick. The
structure is freproof throughout. The floors
consist of iron girders and brick arches, the
only woodwork being the window boxes and the
T11m haffld iHuf &c iHala all TvN
the basement are the workshops; the first story
will be occupied by the ofhces of the superin-
tendent, assistant superintendent and clerks,
and also the engravers' department; the second
story will be devoted to the surface printing
department; the third story to the printing
room proper and the examining room; in the
attic of the pavilions are the dressing rooms
and other conveniences for the employees. The
turret in the southeast corner of the building
contains q private staircase leading from the
Superlntendent's room to each floor of the
building. The boiler house, in the rear of the
building, is two stories in height, and contains
room for the destruction of defective bank
notes and notes Withdrawn from circulation to
be Cancelled, the furnace room for heating the
building and the laundry. The entrance hall
in the belfry tower will be lined with ornamental
and colored brick, and the stairways leading to
the different stories will be of iron, lined with
ornamental and enameled brick the entire
height The building will be heated by hot
water and ventilated by machinery"
Some of the residents of Virginia avenue of
80 years or more ago were James Webster whose
home was at GIT; the Cornwalls, next door:
93l, William Mcqueen; $685. Walter Carter who
kept stand for years in the Center Market
He had quite a large family of children and
has number of descendants living in WASH
tngton.
Nine thirty-five was the Goldsmith house,
where zachariah Goldsmith and his wife Anna
tBlackistone) Goldsmith, reared family of
four children, two sons and two daughters as
follows: James s., superintendent of buildings
and labor, United States National Museum:
Nellie, who married Dr. r. A. Witch; Gertrude,
who married Dr. E. Y. Davidson and William
H, also connected with the National Museum;
Sergt Edgar Smith OF the police force lived at
SS7, while James E. Webster lived at $50.
ON the south side of the street, at HOO Viz
ginia avenue, is the large brick residence
built some years ago by Capt. E. S. Randall,
the well known steamboat man. who years ago
owned and operated River View, to which his
steamers, Samuel ]. Pentz and Harry Randall.
took large crowds of excursionists during the
Summer months. This dwelling is now owned
and occupied by DR.. A. ]. Olmstead.
Some eight years ago DR.. Sarah M. Huddle-
son. for many years connected with the Depart
ment of Agriculture, who had not lived long in
the Southwest, purchased 202 Eleventh street
southwest. and became so enthusiastic over that
part of Washington that she wrote a paper for
the Columbia Historical Society, entitled THE
Sunny Southwest" Speaking of her own
neighborhood, she said:
by act of Congress, September &c. 1890, for
the obstruction and maintenance of bathing
beach on the tidal reservoir near Washington
Monument, the sum of $4,000 was appropriated,
to be payable entirely out of District revenues.
Capt w. x. Stevens, well known patent at