Delaney House

[Craig Hipkins]

Ladies and Gents,
Does anyone know where the Delaney House was located in Washington D.C. ? It served as a place where soldiers mustered out near the end of the war.

Craig

[Rogerm]

I have read that it might have been located on the grounds of what is now the Washington National Cathedral.

[Craig Hipkins]

Thanks! I was doing a little research on the 57th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment and noticed that a lot of the soldiers were mustered out there. I' m wondering if it was a private residence, or an inn of some sort. I'll dig a little deeper to see if I can find out anything.

[Houmes]

(10-17-2016 07:03 PM)Craig Hipkins Wrote:  Thanks! I was doing a little research on the 57th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment and noticed that a lot of the soldiers were mustered out there. I' m wondering if it was a private residence, or an inn of some sort. I'll dig a little deeper to see if I can find out anything.

At civilwartalk.com, on January 1, 2015, Dennis Urban wrote:
Information posted in 2005 on 2 replies at H-Net Discussion Networks says the house is/was on the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral and may have served as its rectory. The cathedral construction, however, was not begun until 1907. In 1865, the house would have been a large private home in northwest DC. The First Division, IX Corps has headquartered near there at war's end and the house served as a muster-out point for several regiments including the 2nd MI Infantry.

[Jim Garrett]

The cathedral is on Wisconsin Ave, which was the main market road in and out of Georgetown. The construction wasn't begun until 1907, and unfortunately I don't know what stood in that general area before.

[L Verge]

Craig - Try changing the spelling to Dulaney and also refer to this site: http://gloverparkhistory.com/glover-park...l-heights/
Check bottom center of opening map.

You have to keep reading and reading before you make ties to a tract of land known as Pretty Prospects and the marriage into a Dulaney family. I have no idea if this is actually the site you are trying to find, but you will recognize some of the names tied to Civil War history in D.C. (such as the Greens - one daughter Elizabeth Quensenberry, another daughter married to Iturbe of the Mexican struggles, whose son became a political pawn, family home named Rosedale, which twenty years ago figured into the Elion Gonzales case). I never found reference to the home being a mustering out point, but its location makes sense.