. Roose's companion and guide to Washington and vicinity . cal order: Agricultural Building is open from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M.;also, the Army Medical Museum. Arlington Cemetery is openevery day, Sunday included. Corcoran Art-Gallery, 17th st. and Pennsylvania avenuen. w., is open daily from 10 A. M. to 4 P. M. Mondays, Wednes-days, and Fridays are pay days. The three other days, admissionis free. Insane Asylum is open on Wednesdays from 2 to 6 P. M. Interior Department, including the Model-Room, PatentOffice, is open daily from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. The Departmentof Justice is also open until 4 P. M
. Roose's companion and guide to Washington and vicinity . cal order: Agricultural Building is open from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M.;also, the Army Medical Museum. Arlington Cemetery is openevery day, Sunday included. Corcoran Art-Gallery, 17th st. and Pennsylvania avenuen. w., is open daily from 10 A. M. to 4 P. M. Mondays, Wednes-days, and Fridays are pay days. The three other days, admissionis free. Insane Asylum is open on Wednesdays from 2 to 6 P. M. Interior Department, including the Model-Room, PatentOffice, is open daily from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. The Departmentof Justice is also open until 4 P. M. Navy Department is open daily from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. TheNavy Yard is open daily from 9 A. M. to sunset. Smithsonian Institution, open daily from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Soldiers Home is open daily from 9 to dark. Carriages ad-mitted to the grounds State Department, open daily, except on Thursdays, (appro-priated to foreign diplomats,) from 10 A. M. to 2 P. M. Treasury Department is open from 9 A. M. to 2 P. M. War Department is open from 9 A. M. to 3 P. Executive Mansion, South Front. 80 PRESIDENTS HOUSE. The Presidents Rouse is about a mile and a half from theCapitol, in a direction west by north. It stands between 15thand 17ih sts. n. w., on a high plateau, where Pennsylvania andNew York avenues intersect, and fronting it is Lafayette is built of a yellowish freestone painted white, and is popu-larly known as The White House. It is two stories high, 170 feet long, and 86 feet wide, with aportico on the north, supported by eight pillars, under whichcarriages can drive. The south front has a semicircular colon-nade of six columns in the centre. A conservatory adjoins thehouse on the west. The building is said to have been modelled after the palace ofthe Duke of Leinster, in Dublin. The architect was JamesHoban, an Irishman, who came to Washington from Charleston,South Carolina. First Floor. The north door opens into a vestibule 40 by 50 feet, divided bya sash screen
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