That middle unit looks to be rather dark without side windows, but as I look at the 1864 photo and the subsequent real estate footprint, I realize that the wings to the back of the unit were one-story, leaving the second and third floors and the servant quarters to have greater amount of light coming in over the protruding roofs below than the real estate photo can hint at. In 1857 this building was on the outskirts of Washington, so that those rear views and especially the views from the left-hand unit, were of wooded, more rural areas. And regal Georgetown was to the west.
Thank you so very much for this. I have a couple references to "Minnesotians" who visited Washington reporting the splendor of Sen. Rice's Washington home. He had a young wife and young children. I imagine how the Rices and the Douglases got along. I'm sure that Douglas and his young wife assumed their never-to-be flock of young'uns would play with the Rice kids.
Oddly, Rice was a "doughface" Northerner who sympathized and socialized with future Confederates. I'm looking for anecdotes as to Rice's stance on slavery...not much evidence. Did his upper story have free labor or slave labor living there?
That middle unit looks to be rather dark without side windows, but as I look at the 1864 photo and the subsequent real estate footprint, I realize that the wings to the back of the unit were one-story, leaving the second and third floors and the servant quarters to have greater amount of light coming in over the protruding roofs below than the real estate photo can hint at. In 1857 this building was on the outskirts of Washington, so that those rear views and especially the views from the left-hand unit, were of wooded, more rural areas. And regal Georgetown was to the west.
Thank you so very much for this. I have a couple references to "Minnesotians" who visited Washington reporting the splendor of Sen. Rice's Washington home. He had a young wife and young children. I imagine how the Rices and the Douglases got along. I'm sure that Douglas and his young wife assumed their never-to-be flock of young'uns would play with the Rice kids.
Oddly, Rice was a "doughface" Northerner who sympathized and socialized with future Confederates. I'm looking for anecdotes as to Rice's stance on slavery...not much evidence. Did his upper story have free labor or slave labor living there?