It was me who was wrong..............then what is at the corner of 15th and Constit.........?



Once relocated, preservationists will complete extensive interior and exterior restoration, including energy-efficient mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and HVAC systems, making the Lockkeeper’s House the first National Mall site to be renovated with an eye toward sustainability.

A reporter from the Washington NBC affiliate documents the second floor interior.
As detailed in the Preservation magazine story, lockkeepers’ houses were built as homes and workplaces for keepers and their families. This house, however, is unusual among the other surviving lockkeeper’s houses as it was constructed for a lockkeeper of the C & O Extension, a commercial corridor between the C & O and the Washington City canals.
When railways largely replaced canals for commercial shipping after the Civil War, the lockkeepers’ houses were no longer needed.  And then around the turn of last century, this house in particular became even more isolated from the Potomac River and the C & O during the establishment of Potomac Park, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Reflecting Pool.
In 1902, when ownership of the house transferred to the Army Corps of Engineers, the building operated as a watchman’s house and tool shed. Adaptations made to convert the building to public restrooms when it transferred to National Park Service are still evident today.
Now, after more than forty years of vacancy, a plan is in place to not only restore and improve the building, but also to establish it as an educational space for the 29 million annual visitors to the park. Restoration is scheduled to complete in 2016, just in time for the National Park Service centennial.
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The Lockkeeper’s House at 17th and Constitution, c. 1900