File:Lock Keeper's House, Seventeenth Street and Constitution Avenue, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC HABS DC,WASH,12- (sheet 4 of 5).png

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HABS DC,WASH,12- (sheet 4 of 5) - Lock Keeper's House, Seventeenth Street and Constitution Avenue, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
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California Polytechnic State University, sponsor
Batterson, Ron, faculty sponsor
Kasparek, Kate, transmitter
Wynn, Steven D, delineator
Title
HABS DC,WASH,12- (sheet 4 of 5) - Lock Keeper's House, Seventeenth Street and Constitution Avenue, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Depicted place District of Columbia; District of Columbia; Washington
Date 1994
date QS:P571,+1994-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS DC,WASH,12- (sheet 4 of 5)
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  • 1994 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry
  • Significance: The lockkeeper's house at 17th street and Constitution Avenue served the lock that connected the Washington branch of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to the Washington City Canal that crossed the capital city parallel to the national mall. The city canal suffered problems from its inception, and ultimately became an open sewer. The C & O Canal entailed enormous national investment but fell victim to labor riots, floods, pestilence, right-of-way disputes, and finally competition of railroads. The result for the lockkeeper's house was the filling-in of the Washington branch of the C&O; canal and the Washington city canal, leaving it removed from its purpose the house was further isolated from the river with the major landfill and reclamation project of the turn of the century that created Potomac park the site of the Lincoln Memorial and reflecting pool. It served for a time as a squatters' tenement, and later for the park police with a holding cell. After World War II the house became a comfort station, but now stands abandoned except for some use as storage for groundskeepers. Few visitors to the park can visualize the historic scene of canal barges passing by the foot of the ellipse and docking at the wharf that once extended to the south of the house, nor the image of the Potomac river extending nearly to the base of the Washington Monument. The lockkeeper's house stands as testimony to the is dramatic and eventful past.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N153
  • Survey number: HABS DC-36
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1832 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/dc0170.sheet.00004a
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Object location38° 53′ 42″ N, 77° 02′ 12.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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