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Dumbarton House-Georgetown DUMBARTON HOUSE in Georgetown (2715 Q Street), is an old house which stood on a high bluff in the middle of Q Street, between Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Streets until 1915, when it was moved back, about one hundred feet, and Q Street was cut through the bluff to connect with Dumbarton Bridge across Rock Creek, once a much larger stream than it is today. The house has undergone various modifications and enlargements. The original house was built before 1751 by George Beall, whose father, Ninian Beall, patented a large tract of land called "The Rock of Dumbarton”, in 1703. This included the northern part of Georgetown, Montrose Park, Oak Hill Cemetery, Rock Creek Park and the land on which Washington Cathedral now stands. The house remained in the Beall family until 1796, when it was sold, and during the next few years it changed hands frequently. Among its owners was General Uriah Forrest, of Revolutionary fame, and Gabriel Duvall, then Comptroller of the Currency and for thirty-five years a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1805 it was bought by Joseph Nourse, the first Register of the Treasury of the United States. Nourse was born in London, in 1754, came as a lad to Virginia, fought in the Revolution, was Secretary to General Charles Lee, and Auditor of the Board of War. He built a new front to the house and probably added the two bays in the rear, leaving the two wings unchanged as they appear in old photographs. When the house was moved in 1915 the wings were rebuilt and enlarged to suit modern conditions. In 1813 Nourse sold the property to Charles Carroll, a cousin of Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence. He gave the house the name of "Bellevue". Carroll was a friend of President Madison, and when Dolly Madison fled from the White House, just before it was burned in 1814, she was escorted by Carroll, and made a brief stop at "Bellevue", where she finished the oft quoted letter to her sister, in which she described the rescue of the Stuart portrait of Washington, which now hangs in the White House. The house has been bought by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, and carefully restored under the advice of Mr. Fiske Kimball of the Pennsylvania Museum of Art, who is one of the leading authorities on colonial architecture, and says that Dumbarton House ("Bellevue") is one of the most beautiful houses of its kind in the United States. Especially noteworthy are the exquisite plaster cornices and friezes in the hall, and the two rooms on the west side, on the first floor. Mr. Kimball says that "there are only two or three other examples of such delicate plaster friezes surviving in colonial houses." The Society is filling the house with fine examples of early furniture approved by Mr. Luke Vincent Lockwood, one of the recognized authorities on period furniture in America. The house is maintained as a museum of domestic life of the early years of the United States. It is open to the public (entrance fee of 50 cents) between the hours of 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. daily, and on Sundays from 2 to 5 P.M. ARLINGTON. THE ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, on the Virginia hills beyond the Potomac is open daily, Sunday included, from sunrise to sunset. A T ARLINGTON sleep the slient hosts who died in the War for the Union. It is consecrated ground, to which come thousands every year from the North and the South, the East and the West, to honor those "who gave their lives that the country might live." It is a worthy pilgrimage. Just as one may not comprehend in its fullness the outward and material beauty of Washington who has not looked upon the city as a part of the noble prospect from Arlington House, so he has not caught the finer essence of what Washington stands for as the Capital of the Nation who has not within the sacred precincts of Arlington Cemetery been brought closer to the four years of sacrifice and felt his patriotism quicken at the contact. The route is by the Washington-Virginia Railway electric trains from 12th street and Pennsylvania avenue. Of the three memorial gates of the Cemetery, one is named for Ord and Weitzel; another for Sheridan, its columns inscribed also with the names of Scott, Lincoln, Stanton and Grant; and the third for McClellan. The West Gate, usually called the Fort Myer Gate, at the top of the hill, is the one through which we shall enter, and from here we shall come to Arlington House, whose portico columns we have seen from Washington. The house is now occupied by the superintendent of the grounds. In the room on the left of the hall, formerly the main drawing room, a register is kept, in which visitors are requested to record their names. On the walls are hung sketch-plans of the Cemetery, and framed copies of addresses and orations becoming the place; the chief among these is President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, spoken at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery, on Nov. 19, 1863. The mansion stands on the brow of the hill, whose slope stretches away a half mile to the Potomac, 200 feet below. The view here opening before one has been famed for a century. When Lafayette was a guest at Arlington House, he pronounecd the prospect from its porch one of the most beautiful he had ever looked upon. The traveler of to-day, although coming like Lafayette from distant lands, may still pronounce the scene one of the rarest he has beheld. Below flows the placid Potomac, from whose further shore rise Georgetown and Washington; and beyond the encircling hills roll away to the horizon's rim. In the far north stands out the white tower of the Soldiers' Home; in the south are the spires of Alexandria. The view is wide and |