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The Rodgers House was occupied by Secretary of State Seward at the time he and his son were nearly fatally stabbed on the night President Lincoln was assassinated. In 1895 the house was torn down to make way for an opera house, called the Lafayette Square Opera House, and later the Belasco Theater.
John Hay, Secretary of State under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, lived at Sixteenth and H Streets.
The home of George Bancroft was at No. 1623 H Street. Here he completed his History of the United States.
LOCK OF THE OLD CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL, GEORGETOWN
The historian Henry Adams, grandson of President John Quincy Adams, lived at 1605 H Street.
Lord Ashburton lived in the large square house next to the old Arlington Hotel, at H Street and Vermont Avenue. Charles Sumner also lived near by.
The Corcoran House stood at the corner of H Street and Connecticut Avenue, where now stands the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. In that house Daniel Webster lived while Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor.