Wormley is located 2.8 mile south of Broxbourne, originally the planned site for the Lee Valley White Water Centre course which is now built in Waltham Cross, for use during the London 2012 Summer Olympics.
Wormley's Hotel was a five-story hotel at 1500 H Street, NW, Washington D.C. The hotel was owned by James Wormley, a free-born black man who had spent time in Europe learning fine culinary skills.
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He gained commissions to build speculative housing from prosperous clients such as the Wormley family, Dr. John Francis and Douglass Syphax, but was not asked to build homes or churches for the black elite of the city.
James Wormley (1819-1884), owner of the Wormley Hotel, and only African-American present when Abraham Lincoln died.
Wormley's occasional tables for Dunbar include his tile-topped tables created as part of the Janus line in 1957 which were a partnership between Modern production design aesthetic and the tile traditions of Tiffany and Otto Natzler.
Hughes appealed to Jefferson's grandson to try to keep his family together: Thomas Jefferson Randolph purchased Hughes' wife and his three sons and took them with Wormley to his plantation of Edgehill.