The Metropolitan Hotel at Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street NW in Washington, D.C. was a major hotel of the capital city of the United States from 1863 to 1933. Built in 1850 by the heirs of Jesse
Metropolitan Hotel advertisement of 1920
Brown's Indian Queen Hotel c. 1832
Brown's Marble Hotel advertisement, 1853
The secession crisis unfolding at the bar of Brown's Hotel, December 29, 1860
Kirkwood House was a 19th-century building in Washington, D.C., located at the northeast corner of the intersection of 12th Street NW and Pennsylvania Avenue. Opened in 1848, it was initially called F
Metropolitan Hotel (Washington, D.C.)
…corner now survives, first floor altered, second floor retains original Greek Revival marble trim." The remaining fragment was demolished in 1984. Kirkwood House (Washington, D.C.) George Washington House (Bladensburg, Maryland…
1847 elevation view of Fuller's Hotel, the building that would later become Kirkwood House (Library of Congress)
"Irving Hotel (Late Fuller's) Washington City." Washington Union, November 26, 1848
Kirkwood House advertisement in 1858 edition of Boyd's directory of Washington, D.C.
"To-Morrow, by Latimer & Cleary: Trustee's Sale of the Entire Effects of the Kirkwood House" (Evening Star, February 4, 1874)