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Title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s pictorial guide to Washington and environs ..
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Rand McNally and Company
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Publisher: Chicago : Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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tthe right (northward) the street slopes steeply up the hill to F Street, and this block, asfar as the Ebbitt House, is known as Newspaper Row, because filled with the offices ofcorrespondents of newspapers all over the country. Opposite them, occupying thenorthwest corner, is Willards Hotel The block opposite Willards is devoted to business houses, and has the RegentHotel. Around the corner to the left, on Fifteenth Street, are the Grand Opera House,the armory of the Washington Light Infantry, the house of the Capital Bicycle Club, etc. This brings us to the end of the avenue, against the southern portico of the Treas-ury, and in sight of the impressive Sherman memorial. Turning to the right, up theslope of Fifteenth Street, we pass the busy terminus of F Street, and go on to G, wherethe Riggs House forms a dignified corner-piece. A few steps farther, the broad avenuein front of the Treasury opens the way northward, and brings us to that goal of patri-otic ambition—the White House.
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•= VI.AT THE EXECUTIVE MANSION. The Executive Mansion, more commonly called the White House, has gained foritself a world-wide reputation in a centurys existence. George Washington was presentat the laying of the corner-stone in 1792, in what then was simply DavidBurns old fields stretching down to the Potomac (for this was the first History. public building to be erected), but John Adams was the first President tolive in the building (1800), which was still so new and damp that his wife was obligedto have a literal house-warming to dry the interior sufficiently for safety to health. Itscost, up to that time, had been about $250,000. The architect, James Hoban, who had won reputation by building some of the finehouses on the Battery in Charleston, took his idea of the mansion from the house of the i

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