At 601 Pennsylvania Avenue, "The Star-Spangled Banner" was first sung in public in 1814. The block's most famous hotel was Brown's Marble Hotel, an innovative Greek Revival landmark that stood from 1851 to 1935 and hosted John Tyler and Abraham Lincoln. In the 1830s, Beverly Snow, a free Black, operated the Epicurean Restaurant on the corner of 6th Street. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad building was completed at the same location in 1893, and its facade was incorporated into the present office building erected by the B. F. Saul Company in 1985.
