Streets of Washington

[RJNorton]

Thanks to Laurie for sending this link.

Laurie notes, "Near the end is a photo that shows Duff Greene’s Row and Mrs. Spriggs’s boardinghouse before it came down in the 1880s."

That is the boardinghouse where Lincoln lived when he served his one term in the House of Representatives. Mary and the boys were also there with him for the first few months of his term.

[Eva Elisabeth]

Nice site, thanks for sharing. I wonder if Mrs. Spriggs owned the house or rented it herself?

[RJNorton]

Eva, I think she leased it from the owner, Duff Green.

"Daniel Carroll originally built the row, which ran from East Capitol St to A St SE, and so the buildings were known as Carroll Row. Carroll was a large landowner on Capitol Hill in the early years of the Capital; it was his house that Pierre L’Enfant had knocked down when it proved to be built on one of L’Enfant’s planned (but by no means built) streets. The house he ended up building was Duddington Manor, whose name remains on a small street and which will certainly be a subject for a future “Lost Capitol Hill” column.

The five houses were later bought by Duff Green, the editor of the United States Telegraph newspaper and it thus acquired the name “Duff Green’s Row.” Green actually lived in the southernmost house, and also took his meals at Mrs. Sprigg’s table."

http://thehillishome.com/2009/08/lost-ca...ens-row-2/