People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1897 — Hobart's Washington Home. [ARTICLE]

Hobart's Washington Home.

Vice President Elect Hobart has leased for four years the handsome Washington house of A. L. Barber, the asphalt king. The house is of granite and is surrounded by an extensive park. It is at the extremity of Fourteenth street and Florida avenue and was occupied formerly by. Chief Justice Fuller. The house was built originally with the idea of inducing the late President Arthur to forsake the Soldiers' home cottage and spend his summers there and is adapted to entertaining.