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Rambler Writes of James Who Lived on F Street The wrnif Thorn¬ Man, Architect, by a« for time past ha* lately tikm up BN the sketch of Dr. William auch delicacy that he will not hold intercourse ton last Sunday the Rambler men¬ with or Submit . the Superiority of Mr. Hohnn, the Principal. On explanation we have parted, tioned James Hoban as having he was on n liberal appointment hut refuses t» among the early residents of give up the Plans and Kssays of Plans as you'll been aee by the inclosed. From llallette's disposition, . P street. The home of Dr. Thornton as disclosed in this transaction we expect )>. stood on the site now occupied by No. will run out all proeeas before he'll jive out tha 1331 F, and Mr. Hoban owned two of papers. of Philip Barton Key. to whom the eorh- the original lots on the north side missioners applird for aid against Hal- F between 14th and 15th streets. It lette, was an uncle of Francis Scott is necessary to say "original lots" be¬ Key. Kverybody in the District is are much smaller familiar with the name. "Wooflley cause the present lots lane." and it takes its name from than the lots laid off in the first sur¬ Philip Barton Key's home, which h<» vey of the city. The following is taken called Woodley. It was a tract of 2T»0 written in 1794: acres which Mr. Key s<>cured ih 1704 from a narrative out of the larger tract called "Rose- now into 1.236 lot* owned The city is apportioned lot dale," by Mr. Key's brother-in- for building, and which are for sale. Each law. Uriah Forrest, one of Washing¬ contains for building three or four houses, ground be observed for ton's generals, a large Georgetow n according to general rules to merchant with making them uniform. The deepest lots are 270 in partnership Benja¬ feet bj seventy. fronting the street. A square min Stoddert and later clerk of ths has from twenty to thirty lots in it. The value Circuit Court of the District of Co¬ of each lot is from 40 to 200 pounds sterling. lumbia for the <-ounty of Washington. It was in 1700 that Forrest and Stod¬ lots were the third and Mr. Hoban's dert acquired a tract of 090 acres north fourth from the corner of 14th street. of Georgetown, between Bock creelc As early as 1802, and probably several and the Georgetown-Frederick road. were with Four years later Gen. Forrest bought years earlier, they improved Stoddert's interest, built his home on two brick houses. Lot No. 3 was valued this land and calb d it "Itosedale." at $450, and was improved with a and lot 4, * dwelling assessed at $1,200, * valued at $700, was improved with a * _house assessed at $2,000. These were The will of James Hoban is amonf among the large houses of F street at the records in the otT:ce of the register that time. Which of those houses was of wills. It bears date D-cember K, the home of Mr. Hoban the Rambler cannot determine at this writing, but 1831, and was recorded December 28, he will hazard the guess that it was 1831. He bequ"aths to each of his chil¬ the twelve-hundred-dollar house on the dren. Edward. James. Francis P.. Ann. street. third lot west of 14th and "an share, or It was a coincidence that Dr. Thorn¬ Joseph Henry, equal ton and Mr. Hoban. who had so much portion of all my estate, real. p< rsonal to do with the building of the Capitol, and mixed, to them and their heir* shot/id have been neighbors. It was Dr. forever." He asks that Rev. William of the which Thornton's design Capitol of St. Patrick's was approved by President Washington Matthews, pastor* and the commissioners appointed by Church, act as trustee for Kdward's him to set up the public buildings and SOUTHWEST CORNER OF 5TH AND P STREETS. share. to get things going in the new city of before the transfer of the trol of the building passed into the li^nd* of vantageous Terms: and hope if his industry and sioners at George Town (the old form Mr. Hoban willed that in case his Washington James Hoban. who. as surveyor of the public liouestj- are of a I'ioce with the specimen he has of from r should die C/ithout i£su« seat of from Philadelphia. spelling that name) September NORTHEAST OF 7TH AND F STREETS. daueht- Ann government works, had been previously connected with the given of his abilities he will prove a useful man 22 to 25, 1793, and on the 23d they ad¬ her husband, Stephen C. Ford, should * construction of the building- lioban was a and a considerable addition. Hoban: CORNER the vviil He be¬ settled in Charleston. dressed the following to Mr. was to inherit under $l..vsn. * * native of Ireland and had * was the captain. It organized Hoban was instructed to set him 1802 and for several years before and to bis brother-in-law. Mr. S. C., Just aftej* the revolutionary war. His The Commissioners direct that Mr. James under the laws of and very work." after that date, lot No. 1, 2S9, queaths Mr. Hoban, in 1792, was chosen by * * Hoban take on himself the Maryland, square Stone, and to his Nancy and principal work was designing and constructing general superin- early Is found of its musters * that being the northwest corner of 12th daughters. President as surveyor of the President's mansion. His connection witn The commissioners. Thomas Jefferson, tendenee of th*» Capital and that the work mention Martha, "three acres of my farm near "Washington thereof be conducted to the orders on President's Square, which has notv * * and F streets. The corner was not built the Capitol continued for ten years, or until in a agreeable this c»ty. on which they reside." and the public works in the new federal which as David Stuart and Daniel Carroll, and directions which may be given from time been highly developed by the landscape This Dermott Roe was one of the on, but on that square, the north side 1802, during period George Hatfield, architect and which is called ho left them *4o<i "for the erection of city and he had much to do in direct¬ architect, was also engaged upon the work letter, January 5, 1793. to Samuel Blod- to.time concerning the same. Lafayette owners on and of F street between 12th and 13th, there said three acres of The Commissioners resolve that the inner corner stone ceremo¬ early property F street, a house on the ing and supervising the construction from 1795 to 1798. him that he had been re¬ Square. At the were at that time five houses owned In his will he wrote: "It is of the Capitol from the moment that get, notifying part of the walls of the President's House nies there was a battery of Virginia his name has given the Rambler some James H. Blake, William ground." Mr. Hoban was born in Dublin abovt as "and from their and the inner of separately by my will and desire that my slaves the first spade of clay was turned on tained supervisor of buildings present height part militia artillery, and the Washington trouble. In the old city records as- Bond, Lewis Clephane, Thomas Dobins District 1762, was educated there, and in 17S1 the walls of fhe Capitol from the water table was The should not be sold out of the Capitol Hill, presumably in the sum¬ in general the affairs committed to our lx> made of sound bricks-and Mr. Artillery probably there also. sesors and clerks have written it in the and William Hoyle. He that won the medal offered to art students strong request old accounts mention the of a salute of Columbia." directed Henry mer of 1793, until 1802. The southeast the Dublin of Soon care." dealt with the need of getting Iloban to provide with that flevr so that there firing books so that it appears as Dermottroe, In the summer of 1794 there was C. Neab-. George Sw«eny and Jatnea corner stone of the Capitol was laid by Society ^rts. may b*> no stop or for want of such by artillery at the corner stone laying. trouble between the stone cutters and after becoming a citizen of Charleston workmen for the Capitol and mentioned delay Dermottree and McDermottree. In 1802 Kearney, "all of this city, shall value September IS, 1793, and a brief but bricks. Thf* facing of the falls of these build¬ Mr. Bryan, basing his statements on "Bernard MeDermottree" was the own¬ stone setters at the Capitol and Hoban and estate." .James Ho¬ account of that cere¬ he designed a new etatehouse for South Mr. Hoban. Following is an excerpt ings are to l>e made of free stone and the and Roe. The apportion my satisfactory and was also the architect of the recollections of George Watterson, er of lot No. 1ft. the third lot west of Dermott commissioners ban. and Thomas Cartw-rv were the mony has been preserved. One should Carolina necessary provision is to be made in Time for sent a letter to Collin William- jr.. a number of the homes of Charleston. from that letter: that purpose. printed in the National Intelligencer 14th street on the south side of F be- strong executors, and Henry C.