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William Neff

20 Nov, 3 tweets, 3 min read

Ain't no Norman stone in #WoodlandNormanstone neighborhood. What you'll find instead is a rummage bin of salvaged, repurposed bits of #GildedAge D.C. This sandstone doorway here, believe it or not, was Teddy Roosevelt Admin. Secretary of State John Hay's Lafayette Park front door

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These arches were salvaged from 19th cent. historian, Presidential descendent Henry Adams' #GildedAge Lafayette Park home (now site of the @HayAdamsHotel). Samuel Clemens, Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt all walked through this doorway that's now a garage for that beat down SUV

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6 Dec

On this day 135 years ago, D.C. #GildedAge socialite photographer Marian Hooper "Clover" Adams ended her life. For years, friends would bring bouquets of her favorite white violets to her #RockCreekCemetery memorial on the anniversary. We've taken to keeping up the tradition

A far better memorial to #CloverAdams herself is the writing of her beloved friend, #HenryJames. His Pandora Day, Daisy Miller and Isabel Archer were all sketches of Clover. Augustus Saint-Gaudens' 1891 signature masterpiece here is a monument only to husband Henry Adams' grief

Peek around the back of architect #StanfordWhite's pedestal setting of the sculpture and you'll find Adams' sole concession to conventional sentiment. No opaque transcendentalism here - a straight Victorian expression of love, grief for his wife. You just have to look for it

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