Evening star., 1933-12-10

Massachusetts Q801 to 1879 and subsequently
held other public Office The congressional dis
trict he represented later formed part Of the
State of Maine, when that State was admitted
into the Union, March Is, 1920, and Thomas
B. Reed ably served this district when in Cong
ress. Mr.. Cults died on April T. 1845, and was
buried in st. Johns Episcopal Church grave
yard which was located in the block bounded
by Twelfth, Thirteenth, r and S streets north
west and in 1857 his remains were removed
to Oak Hill Cemetery.
In 1885, one year before the death of Presi-
dent Madison, this property came into his pos
session, and from him it was inherited by Mrs.
Madison. She, however, at the time, was too
poor to occupy it, and successfully rented t
to Attorney Generel Crittenden, william G.
Preston Of South Carolina and James L
Roosevelt, member of Congress from New YORK
and collateral family connection of the
present occupant of the White House Follow
ing this Mrs. Madison made it her home until
her death there in 1916, when 1t became the
residence of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes,
and during the Civil War served as the head
quarters of Gen. George B. Mcclellan It IS
now occupied by the Cosmos Club which also
owns the property to the south, once the
residence Of William Window, Secretary Of the
Treasury, and Senator Fenton and Robert q.
Ingerson
On the northwest corner of H street and
Vermont avenue lived Senator Charles Sum-
ner, and here he died March IL, 1874 At one
time it was under the old Arlington Hotel
management and here lived Postmaster Gen.
eral Henry c. Payne and Secretary of State
Walter @. Gresham, who died there.
HE home of Senator S. c. Pomeroy Of
Kansas came next, and then the house
built by Matthew St Clair Clark clerk of the
House Of Representatives. Its residents have
included Lord Alexander Barring Ashburton,
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boundary question; John Nelson, Attorney
General. and the Right Hon. Richard Paken-
ham, Minister of Great Britain On the north
east corner Of H and Sixteenth streets is Old
st. Johns Church, built in 1916, and of which
the writer referred to at length not long ago.
The Hay and Adams residences, which for.
merly stood at the northwest corner of n and
Sixteenth streets and at 1903 H street, could
hardly qualify as old houses even before they
were removed. To the west Of these, at 1907
was the Thomas Ritchie house, in which John
Sliden, Gideon Welles, Daniel Lamont Russell
Webster-Corcoran house, where now stands
the United States Chamber of Commerce. was
described in these columns not long since.
Commodore Shubrick lived on the northwest
corner OF H street and Connecticut avenue
and tt was afterward occupied by the late
Senator Thomas F. Bayard. and Mrs. Bayard
continues to make it her home. Judge Ban
croft Davis home came next, and then the
residence Of George Bancroft, which was re-
moved to make way for the large building
which covers the northeast corner of II ana
Seventeenth streets.
few Of the old buildings on jackson place
have been removed and new structures now
occupy their sites, but the Decatur house at
the southwest corner Of H street and jackson
place, Is still there and as it was when the
daring naval hero returned there after his
duel with Commodore Barron and was con-
veyed to the basement room of the house 10
the left Of the hall, where he died In 1920 To
the south Of this house, No. ~, is the Womens
City Club. where President Theodore Roose-
welt made his home while the White House
was being remodeled In 1902, and at what was
No. 20 lived for many years Charles G. Glover.
At No. IA jackson place resided Schuyler
Colfax, Smith Thompson, Samuel L Southard
Levi D. woodbury.. Senator Rives and John @.
Spencer. It Is believed to have been built By
DR.. Ewen, and In 1859 It was occupied h1
Daniel 4 Sickles. when in . jealous rage he
shot and killed Philip Barton Key, Washing-
toms district attorney. Previous to this Il hAd
been the residence of M. le Comte Menou,