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American brothel owner
The graves of Hall and her family at
Congressional Cemetery
in
Washington, D.C.
Mary Ann Hall
(1814 or 1815 ? January 29, 1886)
[1]
ran a successful
brothel
from the 1840s until about 1878 at 349 Maryland Avenue
S.W.
,
Washington, D.C.
, about four blocks west of the
United States Capitol
.
Washington, D.C. brothel
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Before the
National Museum of the American Indian
was built on the site in 1999, the
Smithsonian Institution
conducted an archeological excavation of the foundations and garbage dump of the house.
[2]
The expensive tableware in the garbage dump was made of ironstone and porcelain. Food remnants include meat, fowl, fish, and exotic fruits, including coconuts and berries. French champagne corks were especially numerous. She built a three-story house on the site, which rose greatly in value. In 1864, the
Union Army
's
Provost Marshal
published a list of brothels in Washington, D.C., and Mary Ann Hall's had 18 "inmates," making it the largest in the city.
[3]
Death
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She died on January 29, 1886, with a net worth of $87,000, worth over $2,000,000 in 2005 dollars.
[4]
She was interred with her sister and other family members under "large and dignified" memorials at the
Congressional Cemetery
in Washington, D.C.
[5]
Legacy
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Her summer home in
Arlington County, Virginia
, was later owned by
Presley Marion Rixey
and is now
Marymount University
.
References
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- ^
"District of Columbia Deaths, 1874-1961"
.
FamilySearch
. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
- ^
Francis X. Clines,
Archeology Find: Capital's Best Little Brothel
, New York Times, April 18, 1999.
- ^
Mary Ann Hall's Brothel and Prostitution in Washington during the Civil War
, 1997, accessed May 25, 2012.
- ^
Civil War Studies
, Smithsonian Institution.
- ^
Smithsonian Institution,
"Congressional Cemetery"
, accessed June 26, 2012.
Further reading
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- Donna J. Seifert and Joseph Balicki,
Mary Ann Hall's House
, Historical Archeology, 2005, pp. 59?73.
- Madam on the Mall
, Smithsonian Institution, accessed March 15, 2016.
- Archaeological Investigations National Museum of the American Indian Site Washington, D.C.
, 1997, accessed May 25, 2012.
External links
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