Union Hotel (Washington, D.C.) Explained
There were multiple buildings called Union Hotel in Washington, D.C. in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Hotels
- The Union Hotel in Georgetown, District of Columbia, United States was located at the northeast corner of Bridge and Washington streets, later M and 30th streets.[1] The building stood from 1796 to 1932.[2] The hotel was converted to a hospital during the American Civil War; Louisa May Alcott worked there briefly as a nurse.[3]
- Another Union Hotel existed in Washington in the 1820s and 1830s; it stood on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue, between 3rd and 4th streets,[4] "opposite the Patriotic Bank".[5] [6] This hotel may have persisted through the 1860s as there is testimony about Atzerodt lingering at the Union Hotel in the lead-up to the Lincoln assassination.[7]
- A hotel called the Union Hotel stood on F Street near the Treasury Department.[8] Dating to 1827,[9] this hotel was a three-story brick building.[10] It also was known as the Globe Hotel for a time. While this hotel was run by Jimmy and Bridget Maher,[11] it was the preferred place to stay of Dakota people visiting the Indian Office.[12] It was sometimes called the Union Hotel and Indian Headquarters.
Notes and References
- News: 1915-09-28 . City's Historic Spots Marked for Visitors . 2024-05-12 . Evening star . 20.
- Web site: 2015-11-19 . Now and a Long Time Ago: Union Hotel . 2024-05-12 . The Georgetown Metropolitan . en.
- Web site: The Union Hotel and Tavern, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service) . 2024-05-12 . www.nps.gov . en.
- News: 1831-06-30 . Union Hotel . 2024-05-12 . Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express . 1.
- News: 1831-06-20 . Fresh Butter . 2024-05-12 . United States' Telegraph . 3.
- News: 1824-06-29 . Union Hotel . 2024-05-12 . Washington Gazette . 3.
- Book: Edwards, William C. . The Lincoln Assassination Trial - The Court Transcripts . William Edwards . en.
- Book: The Washington Directory and National Register . 1846 . J.T. Towers. . en.
- Book: Project, Federal Writers' . Washington, City and Capital: Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration ... Washington, 1937 . 1937 . U.S. Government Printing Office . en.
- Book: Busey, Samuel Clagett . Pictures of the City of Washington in the Past . 1898 . W. Ballantyne & sons . 320 . en.
- Book: North, Luther Heddon . Man of the Plains: Recollections of Luther North, 1856–1882 . 1961 . University of Nebraska Press . 978-0-8032-0131-6 . en.
- Book: Aby, Anne J. . The North Star State: A Minnesota History Reader . 2002 . Minnesota Historical Society Press . 978-0-87351-444-6 . 70 . en.