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Chapter 2
1. Charles W. Stetson, Four Mile Run Land Grants (Washington, 1935), is a detailed and accurate study of the title history of the land in the area which includes the Arlington Plantation. Also, Murray H. Nelligan, "Old Arlington, The Story of the Lee National Memorial," (Typescript, National Capital Parks, n.d. but completed 1953), p. 21.
2. Stetson, Four Mile Run Land Grants, p. 1. The deed was recorded in Stafford County, Va. The city of Alexandria, Virginia is named after John Alexander.
3. Stetson, Four Mile Run Land Grants, 28. This author reports that the volume containing the deed is missing. The deeds had been recorded in Records of Fairfax County, Liber N, 223, 226. For the purchase price, see Nelligan, "Old Arlington," pp. 23, 25. The 11,000 pounds were paid in depreciating Continental paper money in 1778.
4. Nelligan, "Old Arlington", pp. 24, 29.
5. This agreement was recorded April 4, 1803 in Records of Alexandria County, District of Columbia, Deed Book E, pp. 127-136. Also see Nelligan, "Old Arlington", pp. 57-58.
6. The Alexandria Gazette, August 30, 1802 has an advertisement giving his new residence. The location of the house is shown on the survey made March 31, 1746, by Theodore Bland, in Records of Alexandria County, Virginia, Survey Book 1742-1857, pp. 11 ff. Nelligan, "Old Arlington", p. 59.
7. Will of G. W. P. Custis, probated December 7, 1857, Records of Alexandria County, Virginia, also published in Eugene E. Prussing, The Estate of George Washington, Deceased (Boston, 1929). Also see Nelligan, "Old Arlington," pp. 405-06.
8. Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 498.
12. Ibid., p. 463; Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial History of the Civil War (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1866), I, 484; and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, XII (June 1, 1861), 28.
13. The sale was widely reported in the newspapers, See, for instance, National Intelligencer, January 13, 1864; National Republican, January 12, 1864; and New York Tribune, January 12, 1864. Nelligan, "Old Arlington," pp. 488-89.
14. Nelligan, "Old Arlington," pp. 490-92. Correspondence of Stanton and Meigs, June 15, 1864 in National Archives Record Group 92, Records of the Quartermaster General's Office. Edward Clark was appointed architect and engineer to establish the 1864 cemetery. The first Confederate and Union dead were buried at the Arlington Estate on May 13, 1864, but on another site from that selected in June 1864. Quarter Master General Letter Book 77, pp. 332-33, RG 92.
15. Nelligan, "Old Arlington", p. 502, Congress authorized the expenditure of $150,000 to clear the title to the cemetery. The deed to the United States, dated March 31, 1883, was recorded on May 14, 1883, in Records of Arlington County, Virginia, Deed Book F, No. 4, p. 257, and plat.
16. Quoted in U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on the Library, "Restoration of the Lee Mansion," 68th Congress, 1st sess., 1924, also Public Resolution No. 74 (H.J. Resolution, 2640) 68th Congress, approved March 4, 1925, and Nelligan, "Old Arlington, pp. 504-505.
17. Public Law No. 181, (H.R. 10286), 70th Cong., approved March 23, 1928; Public Law No. 278; (H.R. 7955) 71st Cong. approved May 28, 1930; and Public Law No. 1035 (H.R. 17223), 70th Cong., approved March 4, 1929.
19. Executive Orders Nos. 6166, June 10, 1933 and 6226, July 23, 1933.
20. Index, National Park Service and Related Areas as of June 30, 1979 (Washington, D.C., 1979), p. 58. Boundary changes were made to the site on November 3, 1959.
Chapter 3
1. John F. Pousson, "Archeological Excavations at Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, Arlington County, Virginia," (typescript, National Park Service, Denver Service Center). This document includes a detailed study of the basements of the north and south wings and limited exploration of the basement of the center section of the mansion.
2. His new residence is given in an advertisement in the Alexandria Gazette, August 30, 1802. The location of the brick house is shown on the survey made March 31, 1746, by Theodore Bland, Records of Alexandria County, Va., Survey Book, 1742-1857, pp. II ff.
3. Nelligan, "Old Arlington," pp. 58-59.
4. Printed in Laura C. Holloway (Langford), The Ladies of the White House, or In The Home of the Presidents (2 vol., New York, 1886). Mrs. Lee had written in 1860: "Mount Washington (Vernon) continued to be his [G.W.P. Custis's] home until after the death of his grandmother, when he commenced the erection of a beautiful mansion at Arlington . . . .", Benson J. Lossing, ed., Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington by His Adopted Son, George Washington Parke Custis, with a Memoir of the Author by his Daughter and Illustrative and Explanatory Notes, (New York, 1860), p. 52.
5. Dimensions used were taken from Historic American Buildings Survey - Virginia - Survey No. VA - 443, Arlington House, Arlington County, Virginia, dated 1941, 18 sheets. Sheet 1 - Basement Plan and Sheet 2, First Floor Plan.
6. Dimensions used were taken from Historic American Buildings Survey - Virginia - Survey No. VA - 443, Arlington House, Arlington County, Virginia, dated 1941, 18 sheets. Sheet 1 - Basement Plan and Sheet 2 - First Floor Plan.
7. The floor joists of the second floor apparently rested on a ledger wall that was located at an elevation of approximately four feet above the present first story floor level. Arnest, "Historic Structures Report, Architectural Data Section, (Phase II), Arlington House," pp. 12.
8. Arnest, "Historic Structures Report Architectural Data Section, (Phase II), Arlington House", p. 13.
13. Photostat of letter in Lee Family Papers, Library of Congress, Letter cited in "Old Arlington," p. 76.
14. Arnest, "Historic Structures Report, Architectural Data Section, (Phase II), Arlington House," p. 19.
15. The existence of a temporary north wall was discovered during the 1980-81 archeological and architectural study of the south wing. Ibid., p. 19.
18. Advertisements in the Alexandria Gazette, September 11, 1805, show that Birch was in that area as early as 1805.
19. Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 81. The new name was first used in G.W.P. Custis to the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dec. 11, 1804 (Washington, 1804).
20. Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 87. Also see Custis to Bushrod Washington, July 10, 1805, Custis Manuscripts, Mount Vernon Ladies' Association Mount Vernon, Virginia and also Alexandria Gazette, February 12, August 10, September 24, and December 24, 1805, for efforts to raise money by selling lots, etc.
21. Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 107.
22. Ibid., p. 188 - Also see Custis to Lawrence Lewis, March 27, 1808, Custis Manuscripts, Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. Custis owed $700, which he finally paid off in 1829.
23. Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 121.
24. Arnest, "Historic Structures Report Architectural Data Section, (Phase II), Arlington House," p. 20.
27. Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 130. Custis to James H. Hooe, June 14, 1813, Custis Manuscripts, New York Public Library, New York, New York.
28. Holloway (Langford), Ladies of the White House I, 59-60.
29. Murry H. Nelligan investigated this question in 1952 and reported "The name (of Cornelius McLean) is not found in early directories of the District, but there is a 'Cornelius McLean, Carpenter,' listed in D. Longworth, Longworth's New York Almanac for 1817-18 (New York: D. Longworth, 1818), 298, suggesting the possibility that the contractor may have been from out-of-town", Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 148.
30. Custis to Edward Stabler, April 8, 1818, in Leadbeater, "The Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Shop," 1139. Also see Nelligan, "Old Arlington," pp. 149-50.
31. Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 149.
33. Custis Manuscripts, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia, collected by Nelligan with copy in park research files. The signature of the plasterer is illegible.
34. Richmond Enquirer, October 12, 1818. Randolph's wife was a cousin of Mrs. Custis, Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 145.
35. Daily National Intelligencer, August 19, 1818. Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 146.
36. Arnest, "Historic Structures Report, Architectura Data Section, Arlington House," pp. 248-49.
38. Republican Chronicle (New York City), reprinted in Washington Gazette, May 7, 1818. Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 149.
39. A. Levasseur, Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825 (2 vols., Philadelphia; 1829), I, 162.
40. Jonathan Elliot, Historical Sketches of the Ten Mile Square (Washington, 1830), p. 290.
41. Francis M. Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans (New York, 1904), p. 204.
42. Godfrey T. Vigne, Six Months in America (London, 1832), p. 147. Also see Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 149.
43. Arnest, "Historic Structure Report, Architectural Data Section, Arlington House," p. 29-31.
44. Dictionary of American Biography, VIII, 76-77. The biographical sketch was written by Fiske Kimball. Kimball wrote, "the Doric Portico [is] modelled on that of the great temple at Paestum and is one of the earliest and most notable houses of the Greek Revival."
46. Nelligan, "Old Arlington", pp. 70-71.
47. William Dunlap, History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (New York, 1834), I, 336.
48. Kimball, Fiske, Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic (New York, 1922), pp. 180, 182. The publishers of Kimball's book provided the Quartermaster General, U.S. Army, with copies of Kimball's notes on May 3, 1929. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.13. These records are in the Washington National Records Center in Suitland, Maryland.
49. RG 92, Office of the Quartermaster General 1890-1914, Document File, Box 6891, File No. 292807.
50. Arnest, "Historic Structures Report Architectural Data Section (Phase II), Arlington House," p. 42.
51. Robert E. Lee to Mrs. Lee, July 12, 1837, Douglas S. Freeman manuscripts, Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia, and Nelligan, "Old Arlington," pp. 255-56.
52. Custis to F. Nelson, April 3, 1851, Custis manuscripts, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, in Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 337.
53. Mrs. Lee to G.W.C. Lee, ca. October 1, 1851, Freeman manuscripts, Virginia State Library in Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 340.
55. Benson J. Lossing, "Arlington House, The Seat of G.W.P. Custis, Esq.," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, VII (September, 1853), pp. 436-37. Also see Nelligan, "Old Arlington," 357.
56. Anges Lee, MSS Journal, Entry for May 20, 1855, DeButts-Ely manuscript, Library of Congress, in Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 376.
57. G.W.C. Lee to Mrs. R.E. Lee, May 27, 1855, DeButts-Ely manuscripts in Nelligan, "Old Arlington," 376.
58. Agnes Lee, MSS Journal, Entry for June 11, 1855, in Nelligan, "Old Arlington," 377.
59. Robert E. Lee to Mrs. Lee, July 1, 1855; and Robert E. Lee's Memorandum Book No. 5, Entries for July 23, August 20, 1855; both in DeButt-Ely manuscripts Library of Congress, in Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 278.
60. Agnes Lee, MSS Journal, Entry of September 1, 1855.
61. Robert E. Lee to Mrs. Lee, July 9, 1855, DeButts-Ely manuscripts, Library of Congress in Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 379.
62. Robert E. Lee's Memorandum Book No. 5, Entry for July 23, 1855, DeButts-Ely manuscript, Library of Congress.
63. Robert E. Lee to Mrs. Lee, July 9, 1855, DeButts-Ely manuscripts, Library of Congress.
64. Robert E. Lee's Memorandum Book No. 5, Entry for August 20, 1855, DeButts-Ely manuscripts, Library of Congress.
65. Robert E. Lee to Mrs. Lee, August 20, 1855, DeButts-Ely manuscript, Library of Congress.
66. Ibid., July 9, 1855, DeButts-Ely manuscripts, Library of Congress. Also see Edmund Jennings Lee, Lee of Virginia (Philadelphia, 1895), p. 434, and Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 379.
67. Robert E. Lee to Mrs. Lee, July 9, 1855, DeButts-Ely manuscript, in Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 379-380.
68. Mrs. Lee to Robert E. Lee, August 19, September 2 and 6, 1856, and Robert E. Lee to Mrs. Lee, Oct. 31, 1857, DeButts-Ely manuscripts, Library of Congress in Nelligan, 388.
69. Mrs. Lee to Robert E. Lee, October 2, 1857, DeButt-Ely manuscripts, Library of Congress. "Markie" was Martha Williams, a cousin of both Colonel and Mrs. Lee, and frequent house guest at Arlington House. It was also the room of Mary Lee, eldest of the Lee daughters.
70. Nelligan, "Old Arlington," pp. 407 ff
71. Park Research Files, MISSIL 5114 C27, and Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 417.
72. Agnes Lee to Rooney Lee, Oct. 2, 1858, DeButts-Ely manuscripts, Library of Congress. On November 22, 1857, Colonel Lee had written to Mrs. A.M. Fitzhugh, "Every thing is in ruins & will have to be rebuilt. . ." Lee manuscript, Duke University. Durham, North Carolina, in Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 409.
73. Park research files, MISSL 5114 c 28.
74. Lee to George Washington Custis Lee, January 17 and March 17, 1858, Lee manuscripts, Duke University in Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 409.
75. Nelligan, "Old Arlington," pp. 460-61.
76. The original document is in the park manuscript collection, Catalog No. 2514.
77. Loose Leaf Notebook entitled, "Descriptive and Architectural File," in park research files.
78. Lossing, "Arlington House, The Seat of G. W. P. Custis, Esq.," 434.
80. Arlington and Mount Vernon, April 18, 1856 LVII Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, (April, 1949) 140-75.
85. Room No. 115's use as "a morning room" is inferred from several letters written later by Mrs. Lee on July 25, 1862. DeButts-Ely manuscripts, Library of Congress in Nelligan, "Old Arlington," 383-84.
86. Data extracted from a typed three-page report dated March 3, 1930, made from the original copy in the possession of L. M. Leisenring, including corrections made by him. Collected by Murry Nelligan in 1949. Copy in park research files.
87. New York Times, May 28, 1861, and Nelligan, "Old Arlington," pp. 463-64.
88. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, D.C. 1880-1919), Ser. I, Vol. 2, p. 37, in Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 464.
89. Theodore Winthrop, "Washington as a Camp," Atlantic Monthly, VIII (July, 1861), 117
90. McDowell was to have assumed command on May 27, 1861, but arrived at Arlington too late at night to do so; he therefore took command on May 28. Official Records, Ser. I., Vol. 2, p. 653. Gen. McDowell to Mrs. Lee, May 30, 1861, in Official Records, Ser. I., Vol. II, p. 655, quoted in Nelligan, "Old Arlington," pp. 466-67.
91. William Tecumsah Sherman, Memoirs (2 vols., New York, 1885), I, 191. Sherman was then in command of the Third Brigade, First Division, of McDowell's Army.
92. Alfred L. Castleman, The Army of the Potomac: Behind the Scenes (Milwaukee, 1863), pp. 53 ff., and Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 475.
93. Gen. McDowell to Brig. Gen. S. Williams, January 7, 1862, quoted in Enoch A. Chase, "George Washington's Heirlooms at Arlington," Current History, (March, 1929,) 975 ff., and Nelligan, "Old Arlington," pp. 478-79.
94. Letters Sent, Secretary of Interior. Misc. No. 2 (Feb. 23, 1856 to March 31, 1862), 328. Also see National Republican, January 28, 1862.
95. Robert G. Carter, Four Brothers in Blue (Washington, 1913), p. 54.
96. S.O. No. 218, Hq. of the Army, Sept. 2, 1862, cited in Kenneth P. Williams, Lincoln Finds a General (2 vols., New York, 1949), I, 322.
97. MS Diary of S. P. Heintzelman, entries for Oct. 6-9, 19, 22; Nov. 8, 1862 and Jan. 6, 1863. Samuel Peter Heintzelman manuscripts, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Also see General Order No. 11, Hq. Defenses of Washington, Dec. 6, 1862, published in National Republican, Dec. 9, 1862, and Nelligan, "Old Arlington," pp. 486-87. In December 1862 the noted photographer Mathew Brady took several photographs of generals and staff officers standing on the east portico steps of Arlington House.
98. RG 92, Entry 576, Box No. 132—Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. In a report to Secretary of War, E. M. Stanton, March 10, 1867, the quartermaster general stated, "Arlington House became the headquarters of Major General McDowell and other General Officers (in 1861)." General DeRussy occupied the house in May and June 1864.
99. George T. Barrett, Letters from Canada and the United States (London, 1865), pp. 234-235, and Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 493.
100. RG 92, Office of the Quartermaster General Consolidated File, 1794-1890, Box 50, File No. 1129, Meigs to Stanton, June 15, 1864.
101. Ibid. Also see National Republican June 17, 1864. The Morning Chronicle, June 18, 1864, stated regarding the new cemetery, "the people of the entire Nation will one day not very far distant, heartily thank the creators of this movement." Nelligan, "Old Arlington," p. 492.
102. RG 92, Entry 576, General Correspondence and Reports Relating to National and Post Cemeteries, 1865-1890, Box 133, Meigs to Rucker, June 15, 1864.
103. Congressional Serial No 1224, p. 23.
104. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, Document C218, J.E. Hilgrath (?), Assistant, Coast Survey, to Quartermaster General Meigs, Sept. 8, 1864.
105. Captain Russell's photographs are filed in the Brady Collection of Civil War Photographs of the Still Picture Section of the National Archives, Washington, D.C. as follows: BA-1502, East front of Arlington House and south wing; 165-C-518, East front of Arlington House; 165-C-519, West or rear elevation of Arlington House; 165-C-512, Looking east from front of Arlington; 165-C 517, South elevation of Arlington House; 165-C-520, West (rear) elevation of Arlington House with slaves quarters; 165-C-516, Headquarters and members of coast survey team. Other photos and grounds are: 165-C-1708, corral; 165-C-514, graves of Mrs. & Mrs. G.W.P. Custis; 165-C-1076, barns and soldiers barracks at Arlington; 165-C-515, officers quarters at Arlington; 165-C-513, barracks of headquarters guard; 165-C-1077, Arlington Cemetery grounds; 165-C-1079, interior of corral on cemetery grounds, all taken June 28-29, 1864.
106. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, Document File No. 894, M.C. Meigs to Files, April 12, 1873.
107. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132. Meigs to Sec. of War, March 10, 1867.
108. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, Document File No. R-128, Moore to Rucker, December 17, 1865.
109. Congressional Serial No. 1230, p. 136.
112. Congressional Serial No. 1249, p. 110.
113. Congressional Serial No. 1285, p. 309.
114. Congressional Serial No. 1324, pp. 547, 559.
115. Congressional Serial No. 1367, pp. 896, 913.
116. Congressional Serial No. 1412, p. 361.
117. Congressional Serial No. 1446, p. 208-12.
118. Congressional Serial No. 1503, p. 193.
119. Congressional Serial No. 1558, p. 190-92.
121. Congressional Serial No. 1324, p. 559.
122. Indeed, Meigs was to supervise this work from 1864 until his retirement as Quartermaster General on February 6, 1864. Russell F. Weigley, Quartermaster General of the Union Army, A Biography of M. C. Meigs (New York: 1959), p. 359.
123. Congressional Serial No. 1412, p. 217.
124. Congressional Serial No. 1412, p. 373.
1983,21 29%125. Congressional Serial No. 1367, 912, and Congressional Serial No. 1412, p. 373.
126. Congressional Serial No. 1367, p. 912.
127. Congressional Serial 1446, p. 155, and Congressional Serial No. 1503, p. 152.
128. Congressional Serial No. 1503, p. 136.
129. Congressional Serial No. 1446, p. 209.
130. Congressional Serial No. 1558, p. 152.
131. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 131, File No. 22-83, Batchelder to Sec. of War, January 19, 1883.
132. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 131, undated description, Ca. 1884.
133. RG 92, Entry 642-"Register of Monthly Reports of National Cemeteries Received by the Office of the Quartermaster General," three volumes. The record of reports received from Arlington Cemetery, Virginia is logged as follows: August 1867 to December 1873 on pages 17 and 18 of Volume III; January 1874 to April 1875 and July 1888 to April 30, 1894 on pages 9 and 158 of Volume II; and June 1874 to June 1888 on Page 5, 152, and 226 of Volume I.
134. Monthly Reports for 1867 to 1884 are in RG 92, Entry 576-General Correspondence and Reports Relating to the National and Post Cemeteries, 1865-1890" - Arlington National Cemetery, Va., in Boxes Nos. 131, 132, and 133.
135. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, Monthly report for April 1869.
136. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 133.
140. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, September 1869 report.
141. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132.
142. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, April 1870 report.
143. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, Myers to Meigs, May 24, 1870, and Meigs to Myers, May 26, 1870.
144. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, June 1870 report.
145. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 131, August 1870 report.
146. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, October 1870.
147. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, October 1879 report.
148. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, December 1870 report.
149. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, December 1870.
150. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, March 1871 report.
151. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, May 1871.
152. Congressional Serial No. 1503, p. 193.
153. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, July 1871 report.
154. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, November 1871 report.
155. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, File 742-QMG-1871.
156. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, August 1871 report.
157. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, October 1871 report.
158. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, January 1872 report.
159. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, April 1872 report.
160. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132. April 1872 report.
161. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, March 1873 report.
162. RG 92, Office of the Quartermaster General Consolidated File, 1874-1890, Box 49, Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, File No. 1425-1873. By Order of QMG to Myers, May 29, 1873. This letter also includes a sketch plan of where to place the shield.
163. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, April 1873 report. The quote is from the May 1873 report.
164. RG 92, Entry 576. Box 132, July 1871 report.
165. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132. November 15, 1873, Depot QM to AMG.
166. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 131, Report for September 1873, Reports for October and December 1873 are in Box 132; the report for November 1873 is in Box 134.
167. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, Plan dated March 16, 1874, and Letter of QMG Summarizing data, March 23, 1874.
168. RG 92, Office of QMG Consolidated File, 1794-1890, Box No. 49, Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, File 1101-1874, March 26, 1874, QMG to Major Wm. Myers, Depot QM, Washington Depot.
169. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, August 1874 report.
170. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, March and May 1874 reports.
171. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, August 1874 report.
172. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, November 1874 report.
173. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 131, June 1874, and report for May 1874, in Box 132.
174. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, October 1874 report.
176. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, May 1874 report.
177. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, August 1874 report.
179. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, October 1874 report.
180. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132.
181. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 133, March 1875 report.
182. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 133, April, May and June 1875 reports.
183. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 133. The report for August indicates the work was about to begin. The report for September 1875 is missing. The October 1875 report indicates that the repairs must have been finished in September.
184. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 133, June 1875 report.
185. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 183, November 1875 report.
186. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 1335, April 1876 report.
187. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 1335, August 1876 report. The reports for May, June, and July 1876 state that the columns on the East Portico require repair.
188. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 133, January 1877 report.
189. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 133, February 1877 report.
190. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 133, May 1878 report.
191. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 133, March 1878 report.
192. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 133, April 1878 report.
193. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, Letter, June 8, 1878, QM Depot to AMG.
194. RG 92, Office of the QMG, 1800-1914, Document File, Box 49, File 1624-1878. Letter, June 10, 1878.
195. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, June 1878 report.
196. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, July 1878 report.
197. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 133, April 1870 report. This problem is not mentioned again in the May 1878 report.
198. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 133, May 1879 report. In the July 1879 report he calls it "the wing roof."
199. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, August 1872 report.
200. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 133, January 1880 report.
201. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 133, March 1880 report.
202. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 133, June 1880 report.
203. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 133, Letter, May 12, 1880.
204. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 133, October and November 1880 reports.
205. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 131, March 1881 report.
206. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 131, July 1881 report.
207. RG 92, Office of the QMG Consolidated File 1794-1914, Box 49, May 17, 1881 memorandum. The document contains Quartermaster M.C. Meig's direction that "the water tower brick . . . should be made to correspond with the other masonry in its vicinity."
209. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 131, July 1882 report.
210. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 131, September 1882 report. In his report for August 1882, he repeated the statement that his quarters required repairs.
211. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 131, July 1883 report.
212. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 131. The complaint about the rooms is not repeated in the August 1883 report.
213. RG 92, Entry 576, Box No. 131, November 1883 report.
214. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, February 1884 report.
215. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, April 1884 report. The landscape gardener David H. Rhodes served as acting superintendent during March 1884.
216. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, May 1884 report.
217. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, June 1884 report.
219. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, September and October 1884 reports.
220. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, June 1884 report.
221. RG 92, Entry 576, September, October, and November 1884 reports.
222. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, October 1884 report.
223. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, October 1884 report.
224. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, November 1884 report.
225. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, August 1884 report.
226. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, September 1884 report.
227. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, Letter, May 3, 1884.
228. RG 92, Entry 576, Box No. 132. Included with this May 28, 1885, estimate is plumber James Lockheart's detailed estimate and list of parts for the bathroom, water closet, and pantry, dated May 28, 1885.
229. Ibid., Indorsement on the May 28, 1885, estimate.
230. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, File 3268-1885. Typed letter of QMG to Depot QM, August 14, 1885. The August 14, 1885 specifications, but not the plans, are also included in Box 132.
<231. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132.
232. RG 92, Entry 667, Item 5. This document has the final version of the specification. Also copy (without dimensions of new door) in RG 92, Entry S76, Box 132. Unfortunately, the maps and plans according to the specifications could not be found.
233. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, Document File 3268-85, September 14, 1885.
234. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, Letter, September 15, 1885.
235. Arnest, "Historic Structures Report, Architectural Data Section, Arlington House," pp. 95-96.
237. Ibid., pp. 188-112. Regarding the White Parlor, Arnest wrote, "The door and window casings differ from those in the rest of the house and exhibit a later style than the Greek Revival character of most of the rest of the block." Mr. Arnest, however, does not state that these two windows were installed in 1885. The other possibility was that the two windows could have been installed in Room 115 in the south wing. See the Arnest study, pp. 201-02 for a discussion of the two 15 over 8 light windows in the east wall of room 115.
238. RG 92, Quartermaster General Document File, 1800-1914, File No. 85160, Rhodes to Col. T. E. True, Depot QM, June 1, 1899.
239. RG 92, Entry 667, Volume I, Item No. 5. This segment has the September 3, 1855, specifications for the repair and improvement of Arlington House.
240. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 132, File 166-188, Depot quartermaster, Washington Depot, to Quartermaster General, October 9, 1888. The quartermaster authorized the expenditure of an additional $500 to build the cistern on October 16, 1888.
241. RG 92, Entry 576, Box 133. The form was dated January 9, 1889.
242. RG 92, Entry 667, Office of National Cemeteries, "Specifications and Estimates and Proposals for Road Construction, Earth ways and Buildings at National Cemeteries, 1882-1889," 2 vols. Vol. I has a June 6, 1889, approved list of office furniture for a superintendent's cemetery office.
243. Correspondence and specifications for this work are to be found in RG 92, Entry 576, Box No. 133, for 1890-91 and 92.
244. RG 92, QMG Document File, 1800-1914, File No. 85160, Rhodes to True, June 1, 1899.
245. The quarterly estimates are located in RG 92, Office of Quartermaster General Document File, 1800-1914, File No. 85160, Box Nos. 1036 and 1037.
246. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1037. The approval or disapproval of each item, with date of the QMG's action, is usually indicated on the report.
247. RG 92, File 85190, Box 1035, Estimate ending Sept. 30, 1896.
248. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1035, "Report on Damage by storm of 29 September 1896 at Arlington National Cemetery," October 1, 1896.
249. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1036, Estimate of C.F. Humphry, quartermaster, Washington Depot, to QMG for funds to repair damage of storm of 29 September 1896, October 9, 1896.
250. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1037, Estimate for quarter ending December 31, 1896.
251. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1037, Drum to Humphry, November 3, 1896. See Plan No. 18 - "Proposed Change in Sewer From Mansion-Arlington National Cemetery - dated November 1896."
252. RG 92, File 185.160, Box 1037, November 1896.
2S3. RG 92, File 85.160, Box 1035, Estimate for quarter ending June 30, 1897.
254. RG 92, File 85.160, Box 1036, Estimate for quarter ending September 30, 1897.
255. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1035, Written in 1896 or 1897.
256. John Ball Osborne, The Story of Arlington. (Washington, 1899), p. 14.
257. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1035, Estimate for quarter ending March 21, 1897.
258. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1036, Estimate for quarter ending Dec. 31, 1897.
259. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1036, Estimate for quarter ending June 30, 1898.
260. RG 92, File 85160, Estimate for quarter ending September 30, 1898.
261. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1036, Letter, August 17, 1898.
262. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1036, Estimate for quarter ending December 31, 1898.
263. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1036, Estimate for quarter ending March 31, 1899.
264. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1036, Estimate for quarter ending June 30, 1899.
265. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1036, Rhodes to True, June 1, 1899.
266. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1036, 1st indorsement, Col. True to QMG, June 2, 1899; QMG to True, June 13, 1899, 2nd indorsement (approving expenditure).
267. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1036, Estimate for quarter ending September 30, 1899.
268. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1036. Drum to True, September 21, 1899. QM, Wash. Depot, to QMG, September 21, 1899, and QMG to Depot QM, September 27, 1899.
269. In the Story of Arlington, p. 14, Osborne reported: "The grand portico, modelled after the Temple of Thesus at Athens (or according to others), the Temple of Patum, near Naples. . ." He also wrote that the entire mansion had been completed in 1803.
270. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1036, Estimate for quarter ending June 30, 1900; Estimate for quarter ending September 30, 1900; Estimate for quarter ending December 31, 1900.
271. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1036, Estimate for quarter ending September 30, 1900. Illustration No. 4, taken in 1900, shows the south and east (front) elevations of the south wing and main house, together with the plantings and paved walk around the east and south sides.
272. Custis-Lee Mansion, Arlington, Va., 1900, Detroit Publishing Company, Library of Congress, Glass Negative No. LC-D40-13038.
273. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1036, Estimate for quarter ending September 30, 1901.
274. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1036, Estimate for quarter ending December 31, 1901.
275. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1036, Estimate for quarter ending March 31, 1902; Estimate for quarter ending September 30, 1902; Estimate for quarter ending December 31, 1902, may be found in Box 1037.
276. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1037, Estimate for quarter ending September 30, 1903; Estimate for quarter ending December 31, 1903. Captain Archibald W. Butts was Quartermaster, Washington Depot, in 1903.
277. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1037, QMG to Depot QM, May 20, 1904; Estimate made of supply for quarter ending June 30, 1904; Estimate quarter ending December 31, 1904, and Burns to QM, November 21, 1904.
278. RG 92, File 85160, Inspection Report of Major W. T. Wood to Inspector General, April 28, 1904.
279. RG 92, File 85160, Box 1035. Quartermaster Depot to QMG, July 23, 1904. Plans for the construction of a new stable at Arlington National Cemetery, dated September 14, 1904, and plans for a new greenhouse at Arlington, 1904, are in Box 1037. File 213212 contains a set of plans and specifications, dated March 7, 1905, for a new stable at Arlington.
280. RG 92, Office of ANM, 1800-1914, Document File 213212. Humphry to Butts, February 24, 1905. The inspection was made in response to a report made by Superintendent A. B. Drum, dated February 21, 1905.
281. Report of Superintendent A. B. Drum, March 14, 1905.
282. RG 92, File 213212, Rhodes to Brum, August 16, 1905.
283. RG 92, File 213212, Drum to Depot QM, August 19, 1905.
284. RG 92, File 213212, Capt. Butt to QMG, August 22, 1905; and QMG to Butt, August 29, 1905.
285. RG File 213212, QMG to Capt. A. W. Butt, September 20, 1905.
286. RG 92, File 213212, Drum to Depot QM, November 3, 1905.
287. RG 92, File 213212, Drum to Depot QM, November 3, 1905; and QM General to Depot QM, November 7, 1905.
288. RG 92, File 213212, Drum to QMG Depot Officer, January 4, 1906.
289. RG 92, File 213212, Hagoon to Depot QM, December 15, 1906.
290. RG 92, File 213212. Proposals, March 23, 1906; and Abstract of Bids, Capt. Butt to QMG, March 24, 1906.
291. RG 92, File 213212, Public Notice and Circular, March 13, 1906, inviting proposals for new guttering and spouting at the Arlington, Va. National Cemetery.
292. RG 92, File 213212, Public Poster and Circular (Advertisement)
293. RG 92, File 213212, Abstract of Bids, April 16, 1906; and Butt to QM General.
294. RG 92, File 213212, QMG to Depot QM, April 19, 1906.
295. RG 92, File 213212, Public Poster and Circular.
296. RG 92, File 213212, Report of inspection made June 20, 1906.
297. RG 92, File 231899, Box 55.99, Letter, September 13, 1906.
298. RG 92, File 231899, Box 5599, Butt to QMG, Sept. 18, 1906.
299. RG 92, File 231899, Box 5599, QMG to Butt, Sept. 21, 1906.
300. RG 92, File 231899, Box 5599, QMG to Butt, October 26, 1906.
301. RG 92, File 231899, Box 5599, Plans and Specification.
302. RG 92, File 231899, Box 5599, QMG to Depot QM, December 10, 1906.
303. RG 92, File 231899, Box 5599. Zalinski to QMG, Dec. 13, 1906. The contract number was Expl 2507. See Report of Progress of Construction of Building, Major M. Gray Zalinski, Arlington, for January 1907 - heating system appropriated $1,735.00 - Expended $1,735.00.
304. RG 92, File 213899, Box 5599, Printed Specification, pp. 14-15.
305. RG 92, File 213212, November 12, 1906.
306. RG 92, File 213212, December 3 and 10, 1906.
307. RG 92, File 231899, Box 5599, Plans (blueprints).
308. RG 92, File 231899, Box 5599, Letter, March 2, 1907, including "Map Showing location of new fire mains for Arlington, Va. National Cemetery, Depot Quartermaster Office, Washington, D.C., March 1907, Scale 1" = 100 feet."
309. RG 92, File 231899, Box 5599, Letter, March 20, 1907.
310. RG 92, File 231899, Box 5599, Abstract of bids, May 20, 1907.
311. RG 92, File 231899, Box 5599.
312. RG 92, File 231899, Box 5599, "Specification for a Fire System at Arlington National Cemetery Prepared in the Office of the Quartermaster, Washington Depot, D.C."
313. RG 92, File 231899, Box 5599, Articles of Agreement, Major M. Gray Zalinski and the McCoy Engineering Co., June 7, 1907.
314. RG 92, File 231899, Box 5999, Abstract of Bids, June 17, 1907.
315. RG 92, File 231899, Box 5599, Agreement, Major M. Gray Zalinski, Newport News Plumbing Co., June 25, 1907.
316. RG 92, File 231899, Box 5599, Report for 1907 fiscal year, July 1907.
317. RG 92, File 231899, Box 5599, Zalinski to QMG, July 20, 1907 and July 27, 1907.
318. RG 92, File 231899, Estimate for quarter ending September 30, 1907.
319. RG 92, File 213212, Estimate for quarter ending March 31, 1908.
320. RG 92, File 213212, Magoon to Depot QM, February 6, 1908.
321. RG 92, File 213212, Abstract of Bids, February 29, 1908.
322. RG 92, File 213212, Public Poster and Circular (Advertisement) Inviting Proposals for Painting, &c. at the Arlington, Va., National Cemetery, February 19, 1908.
323. RG 92, File 213212, Abstracts of Bids, April 29, 1908; Zalinski to QMG, April 29, 1908; and Public Poster and Circular (Advertisement) Inviting Proposals for repairs to Mansion, at the Arlington, Va., National Cemetery, Depot Quartermasters' Office, Washington, D.C. April 18, 1908.
324. RG 92, File 213212, Articles of Agreement between Major M. Gray Zalinski, Depot Quartermaster, Washington Depot, and C.D. Collins for renewal of slate roof, Arlington, Va., dated June 17, 1908, Article No. 1.
325. RG 92, File 213212, Abstract of Bids, June 9, 1908.
326. RG 92, File 213212, Articles of Agreement.
327. RG 92, File 213212, "Specifications for New Slate Roof Covering on the Mansion at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, Office of the Depot Quartermaster, Washington, D.C.-May 8, 1908.
328. RG 92, File 213212, Letter, May 2, 1908.
329. RG 92, File 213212, Box 6653, Letter, June 15, 1909.
330. RG 92, File 213212, Letter, QM, Depot, to QMG, March 23, 1910; and QMG to Depot QM, April 1 and May 4, 1910. For the depot quartermaster's plans, two sheets - H-30, dated April 26, 1910, and approved by the quartermaster general, see Map No. 20, A and B.
331. RG 92, File 29207, Box 6891, QMG to Depot QM, January 13, 1911. The appearance of the south elevations of the south wing and main building of Arlington House and also of the water tower to the west of the mansion can be seen in Photo No. 5, taken in 1911.
332. RG 92, File 352219, QMG to Depot QM, January 24, 1912.
333. RG 92, File 441542, Box 7965.
334. RG 92, File 441542, Box 7965, Letters, April 18, April 21, and July 21, 1913.
335. RG 92, File 468251, Box 8299. Report of Inspection of Arlington, Va., National Cemetery on June 27, 1913 by Lt. Col. W. C. Brown.
336. RG 363, File 468251, Box 8229, Letter, depot quartermaster to QMG, December 8, 1913, and return.
337. RG 92, File 444582, Box 7794, QMG to Depot QM, April 14, 1913.
338. RG 92, File 44582, Box 7994, Lt. Col. Henderson, Dept. QM to QMG, October 14, 1913.
339. RG File 444852, Box 7994, QMG to Depot QM, September 14, 1914. 5th endorsement.
340. RG 92, File 511771, 1st Lt. Philip H. Sheridan 5th Cavalry, Ft. Myer Post Signal Officer to Chief Signal Officer.
341. RG 92, File 511771, Report of Signal Officer to QMG, August 21, 1914.
342. RG 92, Entry 1891, Office of the Quartermaster General Geographical File, 1922-1935, Arlington National Cemetery, Va., Box 67, File 687, Depot QM to QMD, January 18, 1821; QM to DQM, January 21, 1921. Hereafter cited as Entry 1891, Box File. These records are located at Suitland, Maryland.
343. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 687, May 5, 1921, Specifications for remodelling grounds around Lee Mansion.
344. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 71, File 619.3, QMDSO to QMG, April 15, 1922.
345. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 66, File 600.13, Letter, November 15, 1923.
346. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 66, File 600.13, Letter, November 20, 1923.
347. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 66, File 600.13, Letter, November 26, 1923.
348. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 66, File 600.13, Letter, March 12, 1924.
349. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 66, File 600.13, Letter, April 17, 1924.
350. This set of ten preliminary drawings is in National Archives Record Group 79, Records of the National Park Service NCP-2.3 - 91, sheets 1 to 10.
351. This set of 15 sheets is in RG 99, NCP-2.3-92-Sheets 1 to 15.
352. Gilbert L. Rodier, "Arlington House," Architectural Forum, XL (March, 1924), 89-96. The article contained drawings and six photographs. See the following page for Rodier's hypothetical and erroneous plan of the north wing's first floor.
353. Rodier, "Arlington House," Architectural Forum, 92.
354. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 65, File 333.1, Inspection Report, April 25, 1923.
355. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 73, File 675, Letter, June 24, October 8, and November 8, 1924.
356. Enclosed with the memorandum is a plan showing the route of telephone lines from AH.
357. RG 92, Entry 1891, inspection report, Lt. Col. Thorne Strayer to the Inspector General, July 31, 1928.
358. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 62, File 333, May 4, 1925, report.
359. RG 92, Entry 1891, File 600.912, Quarterly Report ending Dec. 31, 1925. In his remarks on the report, dated Feb. 19, 1926, the quartermaster depot supply officer wrote "All necessary improvements can be made with funds on hand and only such repairs as are absolutely necessary are advised... Bill is pending to appropriate money for "Restoration of Mansion."
360. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, Letter to depot quartermaster supply officer, December 27, 1926.
361. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, Letter, December 27, 1926.
362. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 65, File 333, April 25, 1927, report.
363. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 65, File 333, May 22, 1927, letter.
364. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, March 28, 1928, memorandum.
365. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 65, File 333.1, July 31, 1928, report.
366. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 75, File 687, October 20, 1928, report.
367. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 69, File 600.912, Quarterly report, March 31, 1929.
368. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 66, File 600.3, Chas. G. Mortimer, for Quartermaster General to QMSO, April 23, 1929.
369. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 66, File 600.3, Letter, April 24, 1929.
370. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 68, File 600.3, Letter, Oct. 28, 1929.
371. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 72, File 624, Letter, May 19, 1930. From July 29, 1929, to January 16, 1932, when the new office building was completed, the temporary cemetery office was located in room 104 and the staff used the hall, room 101. The staff bathroom was located in room 102 (room 12).
372. The quarterly reports for 1930-31 are in RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 69, File 600.912.
373. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 72, File 624.
374. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 69, File 600.912.
375. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 69, contains the Superintendent's Quarterly reports from 1932 to 1935.
376. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 69, File 687, Douglas McArthur, Acting Secretary of War, to Hon. Tom Conally, U.S. Senate, April 9, 1935.
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1. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 75, File 687.
2. National Archives Record Group 66, Records of the Commission of Fine Arts, Moore to Mrs. Keyes, August 5, 1921. Also see "Plan to Restore Home of General Lee," in Washington Post, August 7, 1921, relative to plans to organize an association of women, like that at Mount Vernon, to restore Arlington House.
3. Restoration of Lee Mansion, Hearing before the Joint Committee on the Library, Congress of the United States, 68th Congress, First Session, Pursuant to H. J. Res. 264, Authorizing the Resolution of the Lee Mansion in the Arlington National Cemetery, Va., May 28, 1924 (Washington, 1925), p. 5.
6. Public Resolution—No. 74—68th Congress (H.J. Res. 264).
7. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.13.
8. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.13.
9. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.13. The Washington Evening Star, August 13, 1925, carried an article on the $225,000 price tag.
10. RG 66, Photostat of letter.
11. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.13, Davis to Moore, September 3, 1925. He stated in part, "I am pleased to receive assurance of the Commissioner's assistance on the restoration of the Arlington Mansion."
12. Mr. Moore clipped this article out of the New York Times and carefully preserved the photostat of same from RG 66.
13. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67.
14. RG 92, Entry 1891, File 600.3.
15. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600, August 1, 1928.
16. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, December 11, 1928.
17. War Department Bulletin No. 6, March 18, 1929, and an act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1929, and June 30, 1930, and for other purposes.
18. RG. 92, Entry 1891, File 293, Box 67.
19. RG 92, Entry 1891, File 293, Box 67, Mortimer was the depot quartermaster supply officer and who had been supervising the work on Arlington House and its outbuilding since August 1, 1928.
20. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 293, Bash to Horton, April 13, 1929.
21. Both items are in RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67. The notes for the April 17 meeting were taken by L. M. Leisenring acting as secretary for Brigadier General William E. Horton.
22. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67.
23. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 66, File 600.3, Bash to Brig. Gen. Chauncy B. Baker, USA, retired, August 9, 1932.
24. Typed copy (original) from park research files, undated report probably written in March or April of 1931.
25. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, Freeman to Col. L. H. Bash, April 22, 1928.
26. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, Letter, March 10, 1931.
27. RG 92, Entry 1981, Box 67, File 600.3.
28. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3
39. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.1.
42. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3.
46. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, and Box 73, File 676.9, January 14, 1930.
47. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3
49. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 68, File 600.3.
51. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 68, File 600.3. The $10,000 appropriation for the 1931 fiscal year was actually approved on May 28, 1930.
52. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 68, File 600.3.
54. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3.
55. RG 92, Entry 1891, File 600.3, (Contract No. W. 950-QM-941.) The contract for the two marble mantels at 100 pounds each, dated July 10, 1931, was approved by the quartermaster general on October 3, 1931.
56. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, August 1, 1928.
57. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67. The form notes from the April 17 meeting, dated April 18, 1929, were taken by Leisenring for E. Horton, chairman of the committee.
58. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, May 3, 1929. In his August 1, 1928, memo to Depot Quartermaster Supply Officer, the quartermaster general mentioned that a plan was then being considered to replace the wooden portico steps with Aquia Creek sandstone steps at an estimated cost of $4,000.
59. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, May 29, 1929. Also see RG 79, Drawing No. 6608-1070, 2 sheets, (also NCP-2.3-39).
60. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, Nov. 21, 1929.
61. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, Orders of QMG to DQMO, Nov. 13, 1929.
62. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 68, File 600.3, April 9, 1930. For drawings of stone steps see Drawing No. 6608—170 (or NCP 2.3—39), dated September 21, 1929 and 6608—170 revised, December 4, 1933 (or NCP—2.3—39A).
63. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3.
64. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, Letter, October 9, 1929.
65. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.1, November 16, 1929.
66. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 68, File 600.3, Letter, April 9, 1930.
67. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, September 18, 1929.
68. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, May 29, 1929.
69. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, Sept. 24, 1929.
71. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 68, File 600.3, April 9, 1930.
72. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 68, File 600.3, May 29, 1929.
73. RG 92, Entry 1891, box 67, File 600.3, September 30, 1929.
74. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, October 1, 1929.
75. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, November 13, 1929.
76. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 68, File 600.3, April 9, 1930.
77. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, November 13, 1929.
79. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, November 21, 1929.
80. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, May 29, 1929.
81. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, September 24, 1929.
82. Copy of undated but ca. May 1931 report in park research files. In an article published in the Washington Evening Star, July 5, 1931, Mortimer is quoted as saying, "When we started the restoration... we found many brick crumbling away and walls disintegrating. So we had a great deal of rebuilding to do in the foundations of walls. We had to put in beams and joists and to shore up walls, one of the most important replacements being the main beam that carried the partition and supports the large reception hall."
83. Copy of undated report, written ca. May 1931, in park research files.
84. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, May 29, 1929. The Honor Roll was apparently located in Room No. 115.
85. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, September 24, 1929 report of Mortimer and November 13, 1929, progress report.
86. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, December 11, 1928.
88. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, November 21, 1929.
89. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, December 11, 1929.
90. RG 92, Entry, 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, May 29, 1929.
91. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, September 24, 1929 report.
92. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 73, File 674, September 20, 1929. Also see RG 79, NCP - 2.3 - 64 - four sheets Electrical Outlet Diagrams for basement, 1st, 2nd, and attic floors, all dated September 17, 1929.
93. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, November 21, 1929 report.
94. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 68, File 600.3, April 9, 1930. The report does not list electrical work as among the uncompleted projects.
95. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, May 29, 1929.
96. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, July 29, 1929.
97. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, September 24, 1929.
98. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, October 18, 1929.
99. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, September 30, November 13, 1929 orders.
100. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, May 29, 1929.
101. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, September 24, 1929 report.
102. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, November 13, 1929.
103. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3.
107. Ibid., September 24, 1929, report.
109. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, November 13, 1929 orders. For details of corner cupboards in Rooms Nos. 10 and 11 (now room 101). See RG 79 Drawing No. 6608-199 (NCP 2.3-29), dated August 22, 1932.
110. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, Capt. Gwynne Conrad to QMG, October 1, 1929.
111. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3. The specifications for installing the heating system and copy of the contract are not included in this file.
112. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, November 1, 1929.
113. All in RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67 for A, Box 68, File 600.3, for B, and Box 73, File 674, for C and D.
114. Copy of report, written ca. May 1931, in park research files.
115. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, November 2, 1929; and Box 73, File 676.9, November 2, 1929, and January 14, 1930. These files do not contain copies of the specifications or the contract. These items may be located in the records of the Advocate Generals Office.
116. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 73, File 676.9, Letter, February 3, 1930. The order was actually approved by the quartermaster general on February 10, 1930. See Box 66, File 600.3, February 10, 1930.
117. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 73, File 676.9, February 20, 1930.
118. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 73, File 676.9.
119. Memorandum of Dean of Lieut. Nurse, Fire Protection, Arlington Mansion, June 1, 1928. Recommendations included removal of the heating system and installation in a separate building, removal of the electrical system, and installation of an automatic fire alarm system. Copy of memo in park research files.
120. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.1.
121. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, January 14, 1930.
122. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, January 6, 1930.
123. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.1, December 8, 1929.
124. For location of matting and treads, see RG Drawing No. 6608-179 (NCP 2.3-17), dated October 25, 1929, and revised January 14, 1930.
125. Mortimer to Gutshall, December 23, 1930, copy in park research files.
126. Washington Evening Star, December 10, 1929. A letter from Bash to Charles F. Frank, Washington, D.C. thanking him for the gift, reveals that the gift, dated December 9, was present on December 8, 1929. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3.
127. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.1, December 9, 1929.
128. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, November 15, 1929.
129. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3
130. Copy of article in RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3
131. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3. Ezra Winters, the artist on the Fine Arts Commission, lived at 15 Vanderbilt Avenue in New York City.
132. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 68, File 600.3, Letter to Evans, and Box 67, File 600.3, Letter to Jackson Company.
133. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, Jackson to QMG, October 15, 1929.
134. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, October 12, 1929.
135. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, November 13, 1929.
136. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, December 20, 1929, Letter.
137. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 68, File 600.3, March 21, 1930, Letter.
138. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, October 2, 1931.
139. "An Old Mansion Becomes a New Shrine," American Motorist, October, 1931.
140. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 68, File 600.3, Correspondence, August 21, 1931, to September 15, 1931, and Mortimer to QMG, September 30, 1931. See Box 66, File 600.5, October 3, 1931, for approval of the contract.
141. RG 92, Entry 1891, Box 67, File 600.3, January 27, 1930.
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