Identifier: picturesquewashi00moor (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: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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demic, normal, and theological departments, and is supportedby contributions received by the American Baptist Home Mission So-ciety. It occupies a handsome edifice, erected at a cost of $35,000,and has accommodations for two hundred students. The Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb is situated onKendall Green, a plot of one hundred acres near the northern terminusof Seventh Street east. It was established in 1857, and is now con-ducted under government auspices. Here the deaf-mute children ofthe District of Columbia, and those whose parents are connected withthe army and navy, receive free education. Its collegiate branch,known as the National Deaf Mute College (the only one of the kindin the world), was established in 1864. Students are admitted tothis college from all parts of the country. It has numerous instruc-tors, and every necessary appliance for the thorough education in thehigher branches of the unfortunate class for which it was designed. HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE. 269
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ARLINGTON HOUSE.(Formerly Residence of Gen. Robert E. Lee.\ The central building is of Gothic architecture, and all the buildingsare spacious and conveniently arranged. On high ground on the south side of the Anacostia River, nearthe point where it mingles its waters with the Potomac, is the Gov-ernment Hospital for the Insane, which was erected in 1855, at a cos^of nearly $1,000,000. It has a commanding site, overlooking thecity of Washington, and from its grounds the finest view of the Capi-tol can be obtained, the majestic edifice showing clearly and fullyfrom this locality, with nothing to diminish its grandeur. The groundsare four hundred and nineteen acres in extent, and the building, withits buttresses and parapet, has been likened to a great feudal castle. 270 PICTURESQUE WASHINGTON. It has a four-storied centre, with long, connecting wings, and is sevenhundred and fifty feet in length, and two hundred feet in width, andhas nearly six hundred apartments, with accommodations fo

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