Heurich House Museum
@heurichhouse.bsky.social
Community-centered museum that explores the history of early-20th-century workers in Washington, DC, and supports those who live and work in the city today.
The list can expand further to include farmers and planters, agricultural laborers, stock-raisers, butchers, packers, and traders and dealers in livestock and produce.
📸 Photo of Sunday dinner with Amelia Heurich, Anita, Christian Jr and grandchildren taken from the musician’s balcony.
📸 Photo of Sunday dinner with Amelia Heurich, Anita, Christian Jr and grandchildren taken from the musician’s balcony.
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The list can expand further to include farmers and planters, agricultural laborers, stock-raisers, butchers, packers, and traders and dealers in livestock and produce.
📸 Photo of Sunday dinner with Amelia Heurich, Anita, Christian Jr and grandchildren taken from the musician’s balcony.
📸 Photo of Sunday dinner with Amelia Heurich, Anita, Christian Jr and grandchildren taken from the musician’s balcony.
It is also important to acknowledge the labor of many others who contributed to this experience - including household staff who prepared & served the meals, Amelia who planned meals and shopped for food, and Christian and the workers at his Brewery who made it financially possible to build the home.
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
It is also important to acknowledge the labor of many others who contributed to this experience - including household staff who prepared & served the meals, Amelia who planned meals and shopped for food, and Christian and the workers at his Brewery who made it financially possible to build the home.
Making utensils, tableware, and stemware would have likely needed the work of potters, gilders or engravers, iron works and glass works operatives, and gold and silver workers.
Pattern workers and designers played a role throughout the process.
Pattern workers and designers played a role throughout the process.
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Making utensils, tableware, and stemware would have likely needed the work of potters, gilders or engravers, iron works and glass works operatives, and gold and silver workers.
Pattern workers and designers played a role throughout the process.
Pattern workers and designers played a role throughout the process.
Installing the parquet floor required the work of carpenters like joiners and painters or varnishers for finishing. Carpenters and joiners would have built and installed the pocket doors. Carpet makers, woolen mill operatives, and dyers would have created the rug that sat under the table.
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Installing the parquet floor required the work of carpenters like joiners and painters or varnishers for finishing. Carpenters and joiners would have built and installed the pocket doors. Carpet makers, woolen mill operatives, and dyers would have created the rug that sat under the table.
The ornate overhead chandelier is nickel-plated bronze - likely made by brass founders or silver workers. Glass works operatives and engravers would have crafted its 12 etched glass shades. There are also porcelain candle-like gas jets, which were typically made by potters.
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The ornate overhead chandelier is nickel-plated bronze - likely made by brass founders or silver workers. Glass works operatives and engravers would have crafted its 12 etched glass shades. There are also porcelain candle-like gas jets, which were typically made by potters.
Their dining room furniture - including their expandable table,18 hand-carved oak chairs, and intricate sideboards - were handcrafted by German immigrant artisan August Grass and cabinetmakers from his shop.
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Their dining room furniture - including their expandable table,18 hand-carved oak chairs, and intricate sideboards - were handcrafted by German immigrant artisan August Grass and cabinetmakers from his shop.
📷 Hayward & Hutchinson Advertisement, unknown date, Heurich Reference Collection
📷 Elias Hutchinson in the catalogue of Appleton Academy, 1853.
📷 Bill to J.G. Meyers from Hayward & Hutchinson for work in the 19th St NW Home, 1889
📷 “E.S. Hutchinson Dies,” The Evening Star, September 13, 1912
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📷 Elias Hutchinson in the catalogue of Appleton Academy, 1853.
📷 Bill to J.G. Meyers from Hayward & Hutchinson for work in the 19th St NW Home, 1889
📷 “E.S. Hutchinson Dies,” The Evening Star, September 13, 1912
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November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
📷 Hayward & Hutchinson Advertisement, unknown date, Heurich Reference Collection
📷 Elias Hutchinson in the catalogue of Appleton Academy, 1853.
📷 Bill to J.G. Meyers from Hayward & Hutchinson for work in the 19th St NW Home, 1889
📷 “E.S. Hutchinson Dies,” The Evening Star, September 13, 1912
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📷 Elias Hutchinson in the catalogue of Appleton Academy, 1853.
📷 Bill to J.G. Meyers from Hayward & Hutchinson for work in the 19th St NW Home, 1889
📷 “E.S. Hutchinson Dies,” The Evening Star, September 13, 1912
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When Elias S. Hutchinson died in 1912, he was remembered in the Evening Star as a, “resident of Washington for Thirty-Eight Years–In Marble and Tile Business.”
🔹How many workers employed by Hayward & Hutchinson also had detailed obituaries with business accomplishments, like Hutchinson?
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🔹How many workers employed by Hayward & Hutchinson also had detailed obituaries with business accomplishments, like Hutchinson?
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November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
When Elias S. Hutchinson died in 1912, he was remembered in the Evening Star as a, “resident of Washington for Thirty-Eight Years–In Marble and Tile Business.”
🔹How many workers employed by Hayward & Hutchinson also had detailed obituaries with business accomplishments, like Hutchinson?
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🔹How many workers employed by Hayward & Hutchinson also had detailed obituaries with business accomplishments, like Hutchinson?
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🔹 How did Hutchinson’s experience differ from other business managers who the Heurich family worked with - especially in comparison to the immigrant-run companies like Jorss Ironworks who completed the Ironwork at the New Hampshire Ave NW property?
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November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
🔹 How did Hutchinson’s experience differ from other business managers who the Heurich family worked with - especially in comparison to the immigrant-run companies like Jorss Ironworks who completed the Ironwork at the New Hampshire Ave NW property?
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Elias S. Hutchinson of Hayward & Hutchinson was born in New Hampshire in 1836 and attended the Appleton Academy, a prestigious high school that was founded in 1789 with close ties to Dartmouth College.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Elias S. Hutchinson of Hayward & Hutchinson was born in New Hampshire in 1836 and attended the Appleton Academy, a prestigious high school that was founded in 1789 with close ties to Dartmouth College.
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🔹Did Hayward & Hutchinson also source the tiles for the 19th St. conservatory from the U.S. Encaustic Tile Works? Did they also do the tilework for the New Hampshire Ave house?
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November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
🔹Did Hayward & Hutchinson also source the tiles for the 19th St. conservatory from the U.S. Encaustic Tile Works? Did they also do the tilework for the New Hampshire Ave house?
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Pictured here is a tile at the center of the conservatory which was placed upside down, imprinted with “U.S.E.T. Works” or U.S. Encaustic Tile Works - a manufacturer of these specialty tiles located in Indiana.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Pictured here is a tile at the center of the conservatory which was placed upside down, imprinted with “U.S.E.T. Works” or U.S. Encaustic Tile Works - a manufacturer of these specialty tiles located in Indiana.
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Three years later, Mathilde and Christian chose a pattern (that seems to be identical to the one in their first home) for the conservatory in the Heurich Mansion we know today on New Hampshire Ave NW.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Three years later, Mathilde and Christian chose a pattern (that seems to be identical to the one in their first home) for the conservatory in the Heurich Mansion we know today on New Hampshire Ave NW.
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📷 Letter from D.W. Stockstill to J.G. Meyers, October 24,1888
📷 Letter from D.W. Stockstill to J.G. Meyers, April 3, 1889
📷 D.W. Stockstill in the 1880 U.S. Census
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📷 Letter from D.W. Stockstill to J.G. Meyers, April 3, 1889
📷 D.W. Stockstill in the 1880 U.S. Census
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November 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
📷 Letter from D.W. Stockstill to J.G. Meyers, October 24,1888
📷 Letter from D.W. Stockstill to J.G. Meyers, April 3, 1889
📷 D.W. Stockstill in the 1880 U.S. Census
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📷 Letter from D.W. Stockstill to J.G. Meyers, April 3, 1889
📷 D.W. Stockstill in the 1880 U.S. Census
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⚒️ Meyers and Stockstill were in the same business circle, so is it possible Stockstill’s company worked on the Heurich home on New Hampshire Ave?
⚒️ We know Stockstill’s name because letters about the Heurich projects were preserved, but how do we find the names of the workers he employed?
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⚒️ We know Stockstill’s name because letters about the Heurich projects were preserved, but how do we find the names of the workers he employed?
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November 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
⚒️ Meyers and Stockstill were in the same business circle, so is it possible Stockstill’s company worked on the Heurich home on New Hampshire Ave?
⚒️ We know Stockstill’s name because letters about the Heurich projects were preserved, but how do we find the names of the workers he employed?
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⚒️ We know Stockstill’s name because letters about the Heurich projects were preserved, but how do we find the names of the workers he employed?
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Once again - in 1889 - Meyers hired Stockstill’s company to supply materials and install the skylight in the conservatory of the 19th St NW Heurich home.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Once again - in 1889 - Meyers hired Stockstill’s company to supply materials and install the skylight in the conservatory of the 19th St NW Heurich home.
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David Winters Stockstill (born in Ohio ca. 1832) worked as a tinner and galvanized iron worker. His business was located at 215-22114th St NW in DC. According to an 1896 article of The Morning Star, Stockstill employed 35-40 workers and supported union labor.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
David Winters Stockstill (born in Ohio ca. 1832) worked as a tinner and galvanized iron worker. His business was located at 215-22114th St NW in DC. According to an 1896 article of The Morning Star, Stockstill employed 35-40 workers and supported union labor.
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Meyers contracted D.W. Stockstill - manager of National Mould and Stamping Company - to add iron ventilators to the milk house, iron gutters and roofing to the wagon house, and corrugating iron to the tool house.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Meyers contracted D.W. Stockstill - manager of National Mould and Stamping Company - to add iron ventilators to the milk house, iron gutters and roofing to the wagon house, and corrugating iron to the tool house.
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These businesses typically:
✨have no additional employees,
✨partake in no or minimal wholesale operations,
✨are working towards generating a living wage,
✨cannot afford fees in multi-week holiday markets.
Will you make our local makers stronger during Q4? 💪
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✨have no additional employees,
✨partake in no or minimal wholesale operations,
✨are working towards generating a living wage,
✨cannot afford fees in multi-week holiday markets.
Will you make our local makers stronger during Q4? 💪
heurichhouse.org/pages/christ...
Christmas Markt
The Heurich House Museum honestly explores the American Experience through the legacy of German immigrant Christian Heurich and his Washington, DC brewery, and creates an equitable path to success…
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November 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
These businesses typically:
✨have no additional employees,
✨partake in no or minimal wholesale operations,
✨are working towards generating a living wage,
✨cannot afford fees in multi-week holiday markets.
Will you make our local makers stronger during Q4? 💪
heurichhouse.org/pages/christ...
✨have no additional employees,
✨partake in no or minimal wholesale operations,
✨are working towards generating a living wage,
✨cannot afford fees in multi-week holiday markets.
Will you make our local makers stronger during Q4? 💪
heurichhouse.org/pages/christ...
🏰 Membership starts at $6/month or $60/year. Learn more and gift your friend (or yourself) a Heurich Membership: heurichhouse.org/pages/member...
Membership
The Heurich House Museum honestly explores the American Experience through the legacy of German immigrant Christian Heurich and his Washington, DC brewery, and creates an equitable path to success…
heurichhouse.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🏰 Membership starts at $6/month or $60/year. Learn more and gift your friend (or yourself) a Heurich Membership: heurichhouse.org/pages/member...
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November 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
⭐ DC devotees who want to engage more deeply with local history and culture
🤝 Anyone who wants to join a thoughtful community of all of the above!
🤝 Anyone who wants to join a thoughtful community of all of the above!