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Jefferson's Inauguration - Photo 6
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- Published in Allen C. Clark, Thomas Law: A Biographical Sketch. Washington D.C: W.F. Roberts Press, 1900, 27.
Jefferson's Inauguration - Photo 6
This photograph from the late nineteenth century is the former home of Thomas Law. Law, who was married to Martha Washington's granddaughter Elizabeth Parke Custis, was a major real estate investor in the emerging national capital. Conrad and McMunn operated out of the Law property at New Jersey Avenue and C Street, opening in November 1800.
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