Evening star., 1932-11-27

tary of the Navy when woodrow
Wilson became President in
1913 and remained here until the Summer OF
1920 when he resigned and was succeeded by
Gordon woodbury..
In seven years time man of Mr.. Roose-
~velt's type can acquire considerable knowledge
of town. and, no doubt, Connecticut avenue,
Farragut Square, Lafayette Square-and the
historic buildings surrounding 1.-THE old State,
War and Navy Building and the buildings on
Constitution avenue between Seventeenth and
Twenty-first streets, erected during the World
War, will look mighty good to him. In the
past few years Pennsylvania avenue has under
gone such complete change that 1t will be
entirely new to him on March 4, next, unless
he sees it before that time, which he is likely
to do.
Naturally, the White House will look good
to him, but as first impressions are permanent,
who knows but that it will not create greater
thrill than VIXEN he moved into No. 1888 N
street shortly after he was appointed to the
Navy post? Here he took up his residence
with Mrs Roosevelt and the four sons and one
daughter at time when war with Germany
was at least in the making. 1t was an ex-
citing period and grew in proportion as time
went on, and we were finally drawn into the
vortex of the great World War.
He lived in the street house for four years,
and then moved to 2131 R street, where he
remained for nearly another four years. In the
meantime making at least two trips to the war
zone in his official capacity. Both of these
houses are today about the same as they were
when he left the city in 1920, and, no doubt,
in his busy life here President beginning
March 4, next, he will more than once ride by
these homes where he and Mrs. Roosevelt un-
doubtedly spent many happy hours-at a time,
too, when the children, now grown, were wont
fondly to tug at their mothers apron strings.
Two of the older Of these are now married,
and just the lapse of a few years has placed
Mr.. and Mrs. Roosevelt in the grandparent
class time of life that usually brings with it
recollections of bygone happy days, and these
are the days, above all days that count in ones
life
4 lAYBE they will recall their old neighbors
iVl in the N street block. DR. Tom Williams,
for instance, down near Seventeenth street;
Mrs. Hchborn, next door, and David H. Mercer,
who represented Nebraska in the House for
many years and later practiced law in this
city. David Mccarthy lived at I'LL, then came
Mrs. Jessica Appleton, Mary L. Heintzelman.
Mrs Caroline Ely, DR.. Thomas c. Martin, Mrs.
Marie Fowler who lived Immediately to the
east Of Mr. Roosevelt), Mrs. Margaret E. Bid
die and Sidney A. Staunton (who lived imme
diately to the west of the President-elect),
Mrs. Caroline Story, Henry F. ippitt Mrs.
Isabella w Campbell, Raphaela AcoSta, John
"
William B. Noble, Mrs. Clare G. Addison, VIII
liam P. Emo and Robert T Lincoln, son of the
martyred President, who lived at the corner
of Eighteenth street.
On the south side of N street between Sew
enteenth and Eighteenth streets his neighbors
were William H. Hun Charles w Chancellor,
Mrs. Jane M. Goode Albert S. Barker, Mrs.
Jane J. Nicholson, Horace Harmon Lurton,
Charles S. Bradley, William R. Merriam, the
e Uruguayan legation Barnard r. Green, archi-
tect Of the Capitol; Mary Groynn Gabrielle
de w. Clements Miles Poindexter, then Sen
ator from the State of Washington; H. Con-
quest Clarke, Ben G. Card, Mrs. Kate Free
man. Emily B. Coyle and John A. T. Hull.
His other residence in this city has much
significance, particularly because it was In Old
Kalorama one of the finest estates around
Washington more than century ago.
When the city was laid out all of this area,
known as James, His Park" and which was
earlier part of Widows Mite" belonged to
Anthony Holmead whose residence, built
around $780, stood about at the northwest
corner of Twenty third and S streets until it
was removed in 1892. In 1894 Gutavus Scott
bought the house and 40 acres of land known
as Rock HILL from Holmead who built
other house nearby to the east. It later be-
came the property of William Augustine Wash
ington, who sold it in 1907 to Joel Barlow for
$4,000. Barlow at first called it "Belair," but
later changed this to "Kalorama, no doubt
from the Greek word meaning fine view.
BY 1846, with the additions made to the
tract, it included 81 acres and extended from
approximately street on the south to Wood
ley lane on the north, and from Florida avenue
and little east of Columbia road the east
to Rock Creek the west.
Gustavus Scott was a Maryland lawyer and
an early Commissioner of the city. That he
was a clever politician can well be judged from
the fact that he secured the passage Of bill
by the Maryland Legislature for a monopoly
in steam navigation in the State to James
Rumsey
JOEL BARLOW, wh> bought the property