Eutaw House

Designed by Samuel Harris, it offered 19,000 ft² of floor space and approximately 230 guest rooms.^[3] One of the first guests was William Henry Harrison, and in 1838 "the roof was partly blown off by the same tornado that blew down a section of the wall of the Front Street Theater."^[4] Robert Garrett & Sons bought the prestigious hotel in 1845 and upgraded it further, and owned it until it was demolished.^[5][6] In 1859, Robert Coleman, who had run Astor House in New York, took charge of the Eutaw.^[6] Abraham Lincoln stayed at the Eutaw House on the way to his inauguration in 1861.^[7] Andrew Johnson stopped at the Eutaw on the last leg of his Swing Around the Circle political tour in 1866.^[8]

From 1894 it housed the headquarters of the Maryland Democratic Party.^[9] The building was gutted by fire in 1912,^[10] just before the 1912 Democratic National Convention,^[9] and torn down shortly thereafter. The building was replaced with a "theater for motion pictures and vaudeville."^[11]

39°17′23″N 76°37′17″W / 39.2896°N 76.6213°W / 39.2896; -76.6213