Abner Cloud House, Intersection of Canal Road & Reservoir Road Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Summary
Significance: This is an early 18th century Miller's House which played a part in the history of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
The Abner Cloud house was built in about 1891 as the residence of a second generation miller. Cloud, who had his mill a few hundred yards west of the Maddox Branch, on the Potomac River side of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, was the son of a Chester County Pennsylvania miller. The mill was used as late as 1869 by D. L. Shoemaker.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-24, FN-55
Survey number: HABS DC-99
Building/structure dates: ca. 1801 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1962 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1801
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Location
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 38.91268, -77.08264
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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