Hiram W. Johnson House
Hiram W. Johnson House | |
Location | 122 Maryland Ave., NE, Washington, D.C. |
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Coordinates | 38°53′29″N 77°0′18″W / 38.89139°N 77.00500°W |
Built | 1810 |
Architectural style | Second Empire, Federal |
NRHP reference No. | 73002072 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | July 20, 1973[1] |
Designated NHL | December 8, 1976[2] |
Designated DCIHS | November 8, 1964 |
The Hiram W. Johnson House, also known as Mountjoy Bayly House, Chaplains Memorial Building or Parkington, is an historic house at 122 Maryland Avenue,
History
The Hiram W. Johnson House is located on Capitol Hill, occupying a parcel bounded on the north by Constitution Avenue and the south by Maryland Avenue. It is just north of the
The house was built sometime after the War of 1812 in a Federal style, and was later given its present Second Empire treatment. It was the residence of the second Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, General Mountjoy Bayly, an officer of the Maryland Line during the Revolutionary War and an original member of The Society of the Cincinnati in the state of Maryland.[4] From 1899 to 1924 it was home to an appellate court judge, and it was briefly owned by a band of the Schwarzenau Brethren before it was purchased in 1929 by Hiram Johnson.[3] Owners or occupants since then have included the American Civil Liberties Union and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.[5]
Johnson was a politician from California, and a leading voice of progressivism and reform in the Republican Party for many years. He served as
See also
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Washington, D.C.
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Northeast Quadrant, Washington, D.C.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ a b "Hiram W. Johnson House". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
- ^ a b c d George R. Adams and Ralph Christian (March 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Hiram W. Johnson House / Parkington" (pdf). National Park Service.
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(help) and Accompanying one photo, exterior, from 1976 (32 KB) - ^ Steuart, Rieman (1969). A History of the Maryland Line in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783. Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland, pp. 51-52.
- ^ "Karchem Properties | Office | Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Inc". Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-12-03.