INSPIRED BY: Stop #2: 16th between Irving and Lamont Streets, NW
There's a small wooden house at 3130 16th street. From 1927-1945 this was the home of John Ernest White, chauffeur to Presidents Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover and FDR. In 1906 when he was driving President Wilson, he hit a delivery boy on his bike at the corner of 14th & Pennsylvania Ave, NW. They took the boy to the hospital and and Wilson promised him a new bicycle.
Click here to see original newspaper article from Oct. 6, 1913.