. Roose's companion and guide to Washington and vicinity . Post-Office Insane Asylum 97 The Dead-Letter Office is on the north side. To enter thisrequires a pass, which is easily obtained from the Chief City Post-Office is on Louisiana avenue, east of 7th st. History. The site of the south side of the Post-Office Department was,early in the history of Washington city, occupied by a brickbuilding, projected by Samuel Blodgett, an unsuccessful specu-lator, for a hotel. It was to be 120 ft. long, 50 ft. wide, andthree stories high. James Hoban was architect. The corner-ston
. Roose's companion and guide to Washington and vicinity . Post-Office Insane Asylum 97 The Dead-Letter Office is on the north side. To enter thisrequires a pass, which is easily obtained from the Chief City Post-Office is on Louisiana avenue, east of 7th st. History. The site of the south side of the Post-Office Department was,early in the history of Washington city, occupied by a brickbuilding, projected by Samuel Blodgett, an unsuccessful specu-lator, for a hotel. It was to be 120 ft. long, 50 ft. wide, andthree stories high. James Hoban was architect. The corner-stone was laid in 1793, and the plan approved by the commissioners. It was put up, as Watterson states, out of the proceeds ofa lottery authorized to be drawn, but not completed. The own-ers of the prize-ticket were orphan children, who, not havingthe means of completing the building, suffered it to remain inan unfinished and dilapidated state. It was here the first theat-rical entertainments were given in the national Capital. In 1810 it was bought by Government, and plainly finish
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