![]() ![]() ![]() The capital city’s grandiose but still unrealized design reflected the ambitions of the expanding nation, even if some visitors were unimpressed. The commute was perhaps slightly longer for Gibson’s five clerks, who crossed ditches, passed over stretches of weeds and rocks, and cut through empty fields, before climbing the stairs to report for work. –composed by a Choctaw while emigrating to the West, 1831įrom George Gibson’s boarding room in the house of Henry Huntt, President Jackson’s personal physician, it was a short walk across the South Lawn of the White House to the commissary general’s office, which occupied five rooms on the second floor of a brick tenement building at 17th and G streets, just across the street from the War Department. ![]()
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