Just what is going on???



The Kalorama mansion in Washington, DC once stood at what is now the intersection of S and 23rd Streets, NW. [map] The story of the house begins around 1750 when a 26 year old Anthony Holmead came from Devon, England to inherit his uncle Anthony’s vast landholdings. Rather than settle in his uncle's manor house located at what was to become the 1300 block of 13th Street, the young Anthony built a new house for himself on part of one of his tracts of land known as Widow’s Mite overlooking Rock Creek. It was a simple house consisting of two stories and constructed of imported English brick to better withstand fires (Figure 1).