Tingey's Ghost
The Navy Yard area is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, beginning about the same time the Federal government officially moved to Washington in 1800. Benjamin Latrobe, an architect of the Capitol building, also designed the main gate to the Navy Yard, and a house for its first Commandant, Captain Thomas Tingey. He oversaw the Navy Yard's birth and early growth and then burned it down to foil the British during the invasion of 1814. He then rebuilt it. In 1829, Tingey died in the quarters built for him. He has been seen since then peering out the windows or roaming with a brass spyglass.
Has old Tingey spied the amazing transformation of Tingey Street in this century?
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