 The mansion was sold by the Hutchins family in the late 1920s and burned down on August 1, 1935.While the mansion was once the only one on the island, now there are scores of large private homes.Hutchins was later the publisher of the first "Washington Times" (founded 1894 by Rep. Charles G. Conn, and later sold to Frank A. Munsey, who sold it to William Randolph Hearst, who sold it to Eleanor Josephine Medill Patterson ("Cissy" Patterson), who merged it with "Washington Herald" to form the "Washington Times-Herald".