Union Hotel (Washington, D.C.)

There were multiple buildings called Union Hotel in Washington, D.C. in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Hotels
  • The Union Hotel in Georgetown, District of Columbia, United States was located at the northeast corner of Bridge and Washington streets, later M and 30th streets.[1] The building stood from 1796 to 1932.[2] The hotel was converted to a hospital during the American Civil War; Louisa May Alcott worked there briefly as a nurse.[3]
  • Another Union Hotel existed in Washington in the 1820s and 1830s; it stood on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue, between 3rd and 4th streets,[4] "opposite the Patriotic Bank".[5][6] This hotel may have persisted through the 1860s as there is testimony about Atzerodt lingering at the Union Hotel in the lead-up to the Lincoln assassination.[7]
  • A hotel called the Union Hotel stood on F Street near the Treasury Department.[8] Dating to 1827,[9] this hotel was a three-story brick building.[10] It also was known as the Globe Hotel for a time.[11] While this hotel was run by Jimmy and Bridget Maher,[12] it was the preferred place to stay of Dakota people visiting the Indian Office.[11] It was sometimes called the Union Hotel and Indian Headquarters.[9]

References
  1. "City's Historic Spots Marked for Visitors". Evening star. 1915-09-28. p. 20. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  2. "Now and a Long Time Ago: Union Hotel". The Georgetown Metropolitan. 2015-11-19. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  3. "The Union Hotel and Tavern, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  4. "Union Hotel". Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express. 1831-06-30. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  5. "Fresh Butter". United States' Telegraph. 1831-06-20. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  6. "Union Hotel". Washington Gazette. 1824-06-29. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  7. Edwards, William C. The Lincoln Assassination Trial - The Court Transcripts. William Edwards.
  8. The Washington Directory and National Register. J.T. Towers. 1846.
  9. Project, Federal Writers' (1937). Washington, City and Capital: Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration ... Washington, 1937. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  10. Busey, Samuel Clagett (1898). Pictures of the City of Washington in the Past. W. Ballantyne & sons. p. 320.
  11. Aby, Anne J. (2002). The North Star State: A Minnesota History Reader. Minnesota Historical Society Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-87351-444-6.
  12. North, Luther Heddon (1961). Man of the Plains: Recollections of Luther North, 1856–1882. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-0131-6.


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