In 1899, tourists to D.C. could visit Egypt and Rome at the Halls of the Ancients John Kelly
There was once a hall of ancient history in Washington. It was near the White House and funded by an industrialist or a tycoon. Could you dig up information on it, please? Washington would have looked a lot different if
Franklin Webster Smith had had his way. It may not have looked better. Still, Answer Man would love to step back in time and enter the Halls of the Ancients. That was the name of Smith’s self-funded museum, which opened in 1899 at 1312-1318 New York Ave. NW, where the Inter-American Development Bank stands today.