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              <text>David Burnes, one of the &lt;a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/94"&gt;original nineteen proprietors of land that created the District of Columbia&lt;/a&gt;, lived in this humble cottage overlooking today's &lt;a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/311"&gt;Constitution Avenue&lt;/a&gt;. Burnes owned &lt;a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/247"&gt;700 acres encompassing the heart of downtown&lt;/a&gt;, including the future sites of the &lt;a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/66"&gt;White House&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/20"&gt;Ellipse&lt;/a&gt;. Contemporaries characterized Burnes as an argumentative, controversial Scotsman. Despite great wealth (reportedly the equivalent of $14 million today), he never replaced his original home. His daughter, Marcia, married New York Congressman John Van Ness, later mayor of Washington. A close friend of Dolly Madison, she built a magnificent home behind Burnes's cottage which became a center of social life in the capital.</text>
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              <text>Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. &lt;a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2012646630/"&gt;View original&lt;/a&gt;.</text>
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