WASHINGTON, D.C.] Three printed lottery tickets signed ("Sam. Blodget"), as lottery agent. Comprising two Federal City Lottery tickets (Lottery No. 2) and one Washington Hotel Lottery. Together 3 pages, small oblongs (1½ x 4¼ in.) . The cancelled ticket numbers on the Federal City tickets are 44193 and 44195. The Hotel Lottery ticket is numbered 16041. FUNDING THE FIRST HOTEL IN THE UNITED STATES. The $350,000 Hotel Lottery was the brainchild of merchant (and D.C. land investor) Samuel Blodget, who signed these tickets as lottery agent. The proceeds were to fund the construction of the Union Public hotel--the first hotel built in the United States. The building--designed by White House architect James Hoban -never fulfilled its commercial purposes as a grand hotel. It did however, serve for many years as one of the crucial public meeting spaces in the Federal City. Indeed, its ample rooms had been designed as an encouragement for merchants to transact their business not in the grog-filled backrooms of taverns, but in a more respectable, republican space. The Hotel was used as a theatre, a locale for important orations and ceremonies, and even as a temporary home for the Congress after British forces torched the Capitol in 1814. The government bought the building in 1810 to use as a post office. Together 3 items . (3)
WASHINGTON, D.C.] Three printed lottery tickets signed ("Sam. Blodget"), as lottery agent. Comprising two Federal City Lottery tickets (Lottery No. 2) and one Washington Hotel Lottery. Together 3 pages, small oblongs (1½ x 4¼ in.) . The cancelled ticket numbers on the Federal City tickets are 44193 and 44195. The Hotel Lottery ticket is numbered 16041. FUNDING THE FIRST HOTEL IN THE UNITED STATES. The $350,000 Hotel Lottery was the brainchild of merchant (and D.C. land investor) Samuel Blodget, who signed these tickets as lottery agent. The proceeds were to fund the construction of the Union Public hotel--the first hotel built in the United States. The building--designed by White House architect James Hoban -never fulfilled its commercial purposes as a grand hotel. It did however, serve for many years as one of the crucial public meeting spaces in the Federal City. Indeed, its ample rooms had been designed as an encouragement for merchants to transact their business not in the grog-filled backrooms of taverns, but in a more respectable, republican space. The Hotel was used as a theatre, a locale for important orations and ceremonies, and even as a temporary home for the Congress after British forces torched the Capitol in 1814. The government bought the building in 1810 to use as a post office. Together 3 items . (3)
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