Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway . THE LAFAYETTE HOUSE. nent in stre^jLS sesses for the curious wayfarer within its borders THE CARLYLE HOUSE. Few of all the colonial buildings of A-^irginia left standing, have more interesting his-torical associations than the Old Car- lyle Mansion wiiich forms a portionof the Braddock Hotel on North Fair-fax street. It was built by John Car-lyle in i745,-\vhen the town was in itsinfancy and surrounded by that time the wav
Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway . THE LAFAYETTE HOUSE. nent in stre^jLS sesses for the curious wayfarer within its borders THE CARLYLE HOUSE. Few of all the colonial buildings of A-^irginia left standing, have more interesting his-torical associations than the Old Car- lyle Mansion wiiich forms a portionof the Braddock Hotel on North Fair-fax street. It was built by John Car-lyle in i745,-\vhen the town was in itsinfancy and surrounded by that time the waves of the Poto-mac washed close to the walls of thebuilding, but by subsequent levellingsand fillings of theimmediatehill slopesfor the citys improvements, they havereceded to the distance of several hun-dred yards. The structure of cut stone andmassive walls, thanks to the reveren-tial care of generations of owners isstill in a good state of the colonial days when it stood a-lone it must have presented a statelyappearance with its wide porch on the. CARLYLE HOUSE.—FRONT VIEW. pcmj: old historic landmarks . and its spacious veranda on the east, comntianding an extensive view of the riverand the heights of the Maryland shore beyond. The lower apartments are wainscoted10 the ceiling and ornamented with carved work in oak. The builder of the Mansion House with a commendable reverence for the associa-tions of the older days, which witnessed the founding of the town, while he had to
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