Historic sketches at Washington : containing a full record of the origin and early history of Washington City and its founders, together with a detailed account of its growth, its public buildings, the style and extravagance of living there, and a description of the inside workings of the lobby, and the various departments of the government . abilities, and thus Columbia County, New York, and the Dis-trict of Columbia, united their leading families. The groom had been educated at Columbia College, NewYork, and was of suchequal spirits, that, tilldeath, he retained allhis popularity inWashingto
Historic sketches at Washington : containing a full record of the origin and early history of Washington City and its founders, together with a detailed account of its growth, its public buildings, the style and extravagance of living there, and a description of the inside workings of the lobby, and the various departments of the government . abilities, and thus Columbia County, New York, and the Dis-trict of Columbia, united their leading families. The groom had been educated at Columbia College, NewYork, and was of suchequal spirits, that, tilldeath, he retained allhis popularity inWashington, andfilled all the highoffices that the citi-zens of Washingtonhad the power to be-stow upon him. His marcia burns. van was equal to her alliance, and kept a tender memory inWashington long after her obstinate father was laid in theCave of Macpelah. For a little time the bridal party inhabited old Burnss cot-tage, still standing at the foot of Seventeenth street. Next,Mr. Yan Ness built a two-story brick house on the corner ofTwelfth and D streets. The city lots selling well, and moneybeing unstinted, Yan Ness next erected, right beside old Burnsscottage, a great brick mansion, still perfect, and inhabitednow by Thomas Green, the son-in-law of the elder Ritchie, thecelebrated Richmond editor. This great house was designed. 316 THE VAN NESS MANSION. by the architect Latrobe, and it cost about $50,000, upwardsof half a century ago. The country-place of the bridal couplewas meantime the Glebe, situated in Virginia, not manymiles from Washington, where they possessed 1,500 acres, partof which is now owned by Caleb dishing. In 1865 the man-sion on The Glebe burned down.
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