LinkLinks Washington Post: ‘No one famous lived here,’ but the old stone house on the Mall has endured By Editor On Aug 30, 2018 55 Share If only this house could talk. For 180 years the small, stone “miracle” has witnessed the passing of history on the southwest corner of 17th Street and what is now Constitution Avenue. Battered by time, nature, and neglect, the onetime lockkeeper’s home on a vanished canal, near a bygone riverfront, has survived the transformation of Washington from a horse-drawn backwater to a worldly metropolis. DC Historyhistoric preservationNational Mall 55 Share FacebookTwitterReddItWhatsAppEmailPrint
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