Powell's Remains

[Linda Anderson]

Thanks, Gene. And the story goes on and on. Elizabeth Cameron was the wife of Senator Donald Cameron. They lived for a while in the old Tayloe house which was next door to the old Seward House on Lafayette Square.

What is very strange is that Black Aggie, which is a copy by Eduard L. A. Pausch of Clover's Memorial, is now located in the courtyard behind the Tayloe House near the site of the old Seward House. Black Aggie has been the subject of many urban legends.

This is from AN UNEXPECTED RENDEZVOUS AT THE COSMOS CLUB ON LAFAYETTE SQUARE

DANIEL B. KRINSLEY

"The cowled figure at the north end of the courtyard faces south. Behind it and to its immediate right side are the connected buildings of the old Cosmos Club where Henry Adams had met with its distinguished members to exchange ideas. In life, Clover Adams might have closed her eyes to the relationship between her husband and Lizzie Cameron. As glyptic art imitating life, the figure faces toward the Ogle Tayloe House, its eyes closed. It was in that house that Lizzie Cameron had lived and where Henry Adams had visited his great love.

"There is no more fitting and ironic place for this figure than its current location, yet its strange odyssey, documented above as serendipitous, tempts one to believe that the spirits of this Gilded Age drama have been drawn inexorably together to their familiar haunts in a ghostly return to Lafayette Square."

http://www.cosmos-club.org/web/journals/...nsley.html