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Show Old Washington Hotel Pastes Into History A wealth of history Is associated with the old National hotel on Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania avenue, recently purchased by the city to make way for a new municipal center. Built in 1S23, this hostelry was for years the largest hotel south of New York. "Not only did Henry Clay live and die at the National," reports Georjre Rothwell Brown In the Washington Herald, "but from Its doors Old Hickory walked to the capitol one March morning to take the oath as President." On the day that Lincoln was inaugurated the hotel roof held sharpshooters who covered that point of the parade. Until the American Federation of Labor moved into its new building It used the hotel for its headquarters. |