"For all the talk, there was no city as yet, only a shabby village and great stretches of tree stumps, stubble, and swamp. There were no schools and not a single church. Capitol Hill comprised a few stores, a few nondescript hotels and boardinghouses clustered near a half-finished sandstone Capitol....
"Yet by all signs he was quite pleased. 'I like the seat of government very well,'he wrote Abigail. He stayed ten days, lodging at Tunnicliff's City Hotel, near the Capitol. He was joined by his new appointments, Secretary of State Marshall and Secretary of War Dexter, who with the rest of the executive branch had made the move from Philadelphia, along with the complete files of the President and the departments shipped in eight packing cases."
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