The Kimmel or Pennsylvania House Hotel

[Susan Higginbotham]

I was wrong--they do seem to have been the same place. There's an ad for the Pennsylvania House, formerly known as the Kimmel House, on page 454 of the Washington city directory. It was between 4 1/2 and 6th Streets:

https://archive.org/stream/boydsdirector...4/mode/2up

I saw "Pennsylvania" listed in the earlier city directories and assumed that this was Pennsylvania House, but evidently not!