Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . ed very far. That night, when LEnfant returned to the cityfrom Acquia Creek, where he was working busily getting out sand-stone for the new Capitol, he was much chagrined to find his ordersunfulfilled. He vowed the house should come down, and, organizinga gang of laborers secretly, he took them quietly up the hill afterdark, and set them at work. By sunrise, not a brick of the obn
Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . ed very far. That night, when LEnfant returned to the cityfrom Acquia Creek, where he was working busily getting out sand-stone for the new Capitol, he was much chagrined to find his ordersunfulfilled. He vowed the house should come down, and, organizinga gang of laborers secretly, he took them quietly up the hill afterdark, and set them at work. By sunrise, not a brick of the obnox-ious dwelling was left standing. Carroll was very indignant at thisarbitrary act, and made complaint to the President, who ordered thereconstruction of Duddington House, precisely as it was before,but, very wisely, not in the middle of New Jersey Avenue. Thishouse was the first fine one erected in the city. It is surrounded bya high brick wall, enclosing grounds full of majestic trees, and evennow, in its partially dilapidated condition, shows considerable of itsformer elegance. A very fortunate man was David Burns, another of the originalland-holders. His property was situated largely in what is now the K. wrKp?IIP#£ :-SW£% S- tM??-%
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