Chapter Ten: The General's House
Rewriting this chapter Chapter 10: The General’s Houses Plaque in Upper Senate Park In his 1896 article on Thornton, Glenn Brown devoted only a paragraph to each of his “private architectural works” and first described what he designed for the General: Washington erected a building on North Capitol Street between B and C Streets Washington, D.C., which at the present time is known as the Hillman House. Dr. Thornton was the architect and superintendent, as shown by the letters of Washington. The exterior of the building has been altered and additional stories have been added. Some of the interior work still remains intact and shows the skill and refinement of the architect. In 1903, Henry B. Looker, the city's surveyor, read a paper before the Columbia Historical Society that proved that the Hillman House, by then called The Kenmore, had been the General's houses. He compared a photograph taken by Army officers who lived in the houses during the Civi...