Sam Smith - Shelley Broderick posted on Facebook a photo of one my favorite places in Washington: the "growlery" of Frederick Douglass.
National Park Service - A growlery is a place to growl. Charles Dickens coined the word "growlery" in his novel Bleak House. Probably inspired by Dickens, Frederick Douglass referred to a tiny stone cabin at Cedar Hill as his "Growlery."
Frederick Douglass's Growlery contained a single room with a fireplace. Douglass kept it simply furnished with a desk, stool, and couch. He retreated here to do some of his deep thinking, writing, and reading in seclusion.
One reporter whom Douglass allowed inside the "peculiar little house" in 1889 found a cozy fire burning in the fireplace and the desk "literally filled with books and paper."
Frederick Douglass's Growlery contained a single room with a fireplace. Douglass kept it simply furnished with a desk, stool, and couch. He retreated here to do some of his deep thinking, writing, and reading in seclusion.
One reporter whom Douglass allowed inside the "peculiar little house" in 1889 found a cozy fire burning in the fireplace and the desk "literally filled with books and paper."
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