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occupied by the marble residence erected about
1907 by the late A. M. Lothrop Of the firm Of
Woodward & Lothrop and here Mr.. Lothrop
made his home. It has q conspicuous setting.
and overlooks the Mcclellan statue, Q short
distance to the south.
In 1891 George Truesdell placed ON record
his addition to Washington Heights, which was
north of Kalorama road and between Columbia
road and Twentieth street. Here he built q
magnificent home. which faced Columbia road
but which, in few years, gave way to more
congested improvements. Mr. TrueSdeu was
q Commissioner the District of Columbia
from 1894 to 1897 and prominent in all civic
affairs, and developed other tracts of land
around Washington.
There were few houses on Columbia road
prior to the Civil War. It is probable the
little red house, which stood at the entrance
OF Red House lane, or old Quarry road, was
there. At first it stood the southwest cor
ner Of these two roads, but was later moved
to the northwest corner some distance back
from Columbia road, and while here was Oc-
cupied at different times by the Hayhoe and
Mulngan families. Thousands Of men, nov in
their COS, and even older, will recall this
little red house and the lane which took its
name, and "Cotton-head Sam" and Dan Dixon.
two colored boys who made life miserable for
the boys who came to Rock Greek to swim, or
who came to that neighborhood to pick berries
in the good old Summertime.
HE Eslin property was to the north 0f
Quarry road, and prior to 1850 J. p. KRAFT
owned . tract Of land which extended north
along Fourteenth street road to Pierce Mil
road, now Park road. This was q beautifully
wooded section, and some Is or 30 years ago
that part closest to the intersection Of Colum-
bia road and Fourteenth street was sought BY
the citizens for a public park, especially be-
cause there was still growing on this block .
grove Of beautiful oak trees. But Congress
could not be made to see it that way, and nov
the place Is covered with houses
During this same period J. Holnead had hk
home near the southwest corner Of Park road
and New Hampshire avenue; j. Wineberger vas
near the corner Of Seventh street pike, as
Georgia avenue was then called and J. Homer
was . close neighbor. William Holmead's place
was about midway between New Hampshire
avenue and Fourteenth street road where Is
now Holmead's subdivision.
By 1887 . number Of families had moved
into the Meridian Hill section including those
of Henry Lehman, ]. E. Vermilli0n, Charles E.
Crown, Nathan Sprague. Harry Hunaker, John
Seibel. Mrs. Susan E. Fuller, and down in the
vicinity of the French embassy, where was the
Joaquin Miller cottage (now in Rock Greek
PARK. resided Charles Newbold, and the james
and Ogle families lived on Crescent street. On
January 49, 1887. John B. Henderson, former
oeAoeo1 AoM MlSSoWl, UOusnt Tie SIVUn0
where now stands Henderson Castle for
which . permit to build was issued the follow
ing year. David Cranmer, an early resident Of
this subdivision, lived at Seventeenth street
and Columbia road in Q house still standing
which was moved from Mount Pleasant when
Sixteenth street was extended.
It would be . hard stretch Of the imagina-
ton to visualize Taylors lane (or Columbia
road as 1t was in the early days Of Washing
ton. when the race track was nearby md
people did not mind walking or 4 miles
to see two good horses test their speed for the
supremacy Of the North and the South, which
happened to be the case upon more than one
occasion, Or even 10 90 back 10 years and ~
conditions - they then existed