Identifier: picturesquewas00moor (find matches)
Title: Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Moore, Joseph West
Subjects: Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: Providence : J.A. & R.A. Reid
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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^ of Jesus.It was incorporated as a university in 1858. The National Medical College, connected with the ColumbianUniversity, is located on H Street, betvveen Thirteenth and Four-teenth streets northwest. It was founded in 1824, and the presentbuilding, erected at a cost of $40,000 in 1864, was the gift of Mr.William W. Corcoran. The Law School of Columbian University,established in 1826, is located on Fifth Street, opposite JudiciarySquare. The Medical and Law Schools of Georgetown College are locatedin Washington, the former at the corner of Tenth and E streets THE PUBLIC MARKETS. 259
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THE LOUISE HOME. northwest, and the latter on F Street, between Ninth and Tenthstreets northwest. The public markets of Washington are among the finest in theUnited States, and are objects of considerable interest to strangers.They consist of the Center Market, on the south side of Pennsylva-nia Avenue, between Seventh and Ninth streets northwest; theNorthern Liberty Market, on Fifth Street, between K and L streetsnorthwest; the Northern Market, on Seventh Street, between O andP streets northwest; the Eastern Market, on Capitol Hill, at thejunction of Seventh Street east, and North Carolina Avenue ; andthe Western Market, on K Street, between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets northwest. They are supplied with a profusion of fine 26o PICTURESQUE WASHINGTON. vegetables and fruits, game, fish, oysters, and the best quahties ofmeats. Washington being situated in the centre of a luxuriant agri-cultural region, and adjacent to the great oyster and fishing-groundsof the Potomac River and Ch

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