Your post intrigued me, especially the reference to a museum owned by  
James Warrell.

It makes you wonder if any of the exhibits remain, transferred to a  
currently existing facility. It sounds as if the Warrell-Lorton museum  
was practically next to the privy. No wonder ticket sales declined if  
it took all that legislstion and repair to keep the water flowing  
under the necessary. It looks to me like the museum was located where  
the parking lot for the Capitol Police now sits. I wonder where the  
refuse outlet to the James was?  Probably just before the lock to the  
east on Canal St. - Must have been a real tourist attraction in the  
summer!

Thank you for some very entertaining posts.

Janice



Dale Dulaney wrote:

> The General Assembly is back in session and we thought it timely to  
> post an
> entry about the surprising history of the "necessary" at the seat of  
> state
> government. One of our archivists pieced together this account of  
> the public
> privy on Capitol Square from several record collections here at the  
> Library

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