The Treasury Building

 Constructed from 1836 to 1869, the hulking Treasury Building at Pennsylvania Avenue and Fifteenth Street, served as barracks for Union troops during the Civil War. It was stocked with supplies in the event the city fell to the Confederate Army, the President and Cabinet would be moved to the Treasury Building to wait until reforcements would take back the city. The plan was never enacted. The Treasury Building served as a temporary White House for President Andrew Johnson after the death of Lincoln, when Johnson allowed the slain president's widow to stay at the White House. President Grant held his Inaugural Ball in 1869 in the manificent cash room. Secretary Chase's office was in the South wing.

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Photographical Credits
1. Salmon P. Chase, engraving by J.C. Buttre after a painting by F.B. Carpenter,(courtesy of the Ohio Historical Society Library) Encyclopedia Brittannica

2. Salmon P. Chase, about 1850, (Cinncinnati Historical Society) from the book ' Salmon P. Chase, A Life in Politics, Blue, Frederick J., Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio and London, England 1987

3. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, 1861 Mathew Brady Studio Library of Congress

4. Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1864-1873 (Library of Congress, CQ Encyclopedia of American Government, The Supreme Court A to Z, Copyright 1994 Congressional Quarterly, Washington D.C.

5. Salmon P. Chase, 1873, shortly before his death. (Chase Manhattan Bank) The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia

6. Salmon P. Chase,Treasury Secretary. From a CDV the author owns. Charles Taber & Co. Manufacturers, New Bedford, Mass

7. Salmon P. Chase, Kate Chase, Nettie Chase, from the book by John Niven, Salmon P. Chase, a BiographyOxford Press, New York 1995, Courtesy of the Library of Congress

8. Salmon P. Chase, from a picture on the US Treasury Web site

9. Andrew Johnson President Andrew Johnson

10. Salmon P. Chase, from a page at the Cincinnati Enquirer Famous Floods

11. The United States Treasury Building, The Treasury Historical Association, 1500 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20220

References
1. Ishbel Ross, ‘Proud Kate, Portrait of an Ambitious Woman', Catherine Jane Chase Sprague', New York: Harper 1953

2. Albert Bushnell Hart, 'Salmon P. Chase', (1980)ed Chelsea House Publishers, reprint of the 1899 ed published by Houghton, Mifflin and Boston. American Statesmen Series.

3. The address and reply on the presentation of a testimonial to S. P. Chase, by the colored people of Cincinnati. Feb. 12, 1845. African-American Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection 1880-1920. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress.

4. See note 2

5. See note 2

6. The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia™ Release 6

7. The Reader's Companion to American History, Edition 1991 COPYRIGHT 1991 Houghton Mifflin Co.

8. See note 7

9. Macartney, Clarence Edward Noble, ‘Lincoln and His Cabinet', New York London C.Scribner, 1931.

10. See note 9 (Lincoln added ‘upon military necessity'.)

11. L. E. Chittenden, ‘Recollections of President Lincoln and his Administration' , New York, Harper & Brother 1891

12. See note 9

13. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, ‘Men of our Times or Leading Patriots of The Day', Hartford Publishing Company, Hartford, Conn 1868

14. CQ Encyclopedia of American Government The Supreme Court A to Z Copyright 1994 Congressional Quarterly, Washington DC

15. Historic United States Court Cases 1690-1990-American Encyclopedia

16. Encyclopedia of the American Constitution / Leonard W. Levy, editor-in-chief New York:Macmillan;London:Collier Macmillan, c1986.

17. See note 16

18. See note 16

19. Kelly, Alfred H. and Harbison Winfred A. Wayne State University ‘The American Constitution, It's Origins& Development' Fourth Edition Copyright 1970 W.W.Norton& Company, Inc. New York

20. Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. SUPREME COURT 1979, Congressional Quarterly, Washington DC

21. Benedict, Michael Les ‘The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson' Copyright 1973 by Michael Les Benedict

22. Niven, John, ‘Salmon P. Chase, A Biography', Copyright 1995 Oxford University Press New YorkJohn Niven comments on this book

23. Legal tender cases. (Two US Supreme Court cases confirming that paper money issued by the federal government is constitutional) The Reader's Companion to American History, Edition 1991

24. See note 20

25. Turner, Justin and Turner, Linda Levitt, "Mary Lincoln, Her life and Letters," Copyright 1972, Published 1987 by Fromm Int. Pub. Corp. NY, Alfred Knopf.Inc

26> Umbreit, Kenneth Bernard. ‘Our eleven chief justices; a history of the Supreme court in terms of their personalities' Chapter VI, ‘Salmon Portland Chase', New York, Harper & bros., 1938.

27. Wade, Hugh Mason, 'A brief History of Cornish, 1763-1974," Moses Chase, Newbury, Massachusetts