Rev. William Ryland (1770-1846), a Methodist minister and two-term Senate chaplain, lived at 715 8th Street SE in the 1820s and 1830s when 8th Street was both a commercial and a residential street. President Andrew Jackson, said to have visited Ryland here, also commissioned Ryland as Chaplain of the Navy, in which he served the last 18 years of his life. Although the ground floor has been modified for present-day commercial use, the building is a typical early 19th century brick house with dormers in the pitched roof so it is a reminder of the earliest days of 8th Street near both the Marine Barracks and Navy Yard when houses like this were common along the street.

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For more information on these historic sites, go to the restoration society’s web page for the walking tour at http://chrs.org/historic-sites-tour-2020/

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

Blackbird that loved the camera, posted earlier: