provements, southwest corner of Prince and Washington Streets,
commonly called the Lyceum Hall, fronting on Washington Street 92 feet 7
inches and on Prince 101 feet 5 inches and bounded on the south by the
property of H.W. Vandergrift and on the West by Mr. Henry Daingerfield's
estate.[193] John Bathurst Daingerfield and his brother, Henry, owned
almost the entire square bounded by Prince, Duke, Columbus and
Washington streets, where now stands the Alexandria Hospital.

[Illustration: The old Lyceum and Library]

John B. Daingerfield turned the lyceum into a residence for his
daughter, Mary, at the time of her marriage to Captain Philip Beverly
Hooe, 17th Virginia Regiment, C.S.A. The house remained in the Hooe
family until 1900, when John Daingerfield Hooe and his wife, Mary, the
daughter of Colonel Arthur Herbert, sold the property to Sara J.
McGuire. In 1913 Mrs. McGuire transferred the property to her husband,
the late Dr. Hugh McGuire. The lyceum was used for many years as a
private residence by Dr. and Mrs. McGuire, and the interior has been
much changed. The exterior is quite untouched, triglyph cornice, Doric
columns, all well past the century mark. It stands today one of the best
examples of the Classical Revival in architecture, not only in
Alexandria but in America.

The corner of Prince and Washington Streets is hallowed ground to
Alexandria. From here the 17th Virginia Regiment, C.S.A., marched
gallantly off to war, and when the fighting and turmoil died, the
remnant of this regiment was wont to gather on Confederate Memorial Day
and hold services for those left behind on Virginia's bloody
battlefields. This custom continued long after the bronze monument of a
Confederate soldier was placed in the center of the street. If, today,
hurrying automobiles are forced to slow up to pass the circle enclosing
the Confederate warrior, it is well. For this spot, while marking a lost
cause, does not mark a forgotten one.

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Chapter 28

The Sea Captain's Daughter and Her House

[617 South Washington Street. Owners: Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Westcott
Hill.]

This large, almost square house, rises three stories in a stately pile
of soft red brick, flanked by two ancient tulip trees towering
twenty-five feet above the pavilion roof, while a great box hedge
partially hides the front facade and large garden. Five generations of
the same family have called it home.

It is a roma