. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . y; honored Congress with a brief attendance O J O and a divided attention, and found a new interest in the capital and itsnotable spots by connecting sites, houses, or places, statues or scenes, withihe famous Americans whose lives and homes had been their study as theyhad wandered about the land. They visited the Petersen house on Tenth street, in which Lincoln died— now a veritable museum of Lincoln relics andreminders, and the property, as it should be, of thegovernment. They hunted up the
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . y; honored Congress with a brief attendance O J O and a divided attention, and found a new interest in the capital and itsnotable spots by connecting sites, houses, or places, statues or scenes, withihe famous Americans whose lives and homes had been their study as theyhad wandered about the land. They visited the Petersen house on Tenth street, in which Lincoln died— now a veritable museum of Lincoln relics andreminders, and the property, as it should be, of thegovernment. They hunted up the spot in Statu-ary Hall in the Capitol where John Quincy Adamsfell stricken with death — oddly marked with con-centric circles, as shown in the diagram on this page. They tried to imagine his mother, Mrs. JohnAdams, hanging out her Monday wash in thenow splendid East Room of the White House;they conjured up Jackson, tracing out with his cane the majestic proportions of the splendid Treasury Building; they hunted upthe sites of houses made famous by bein^r the houses in WashiVii>ton ol J O O.
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