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Embassy Row

January 01, 1970

This article is about the section of Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C.. For other uses, see Embassy Row (disambiguation).

Embassy Row is the informal name for a section of Northwest Washington, D.C., with a high concentration of embassies, diplomatic missions, and diplomatic residences.[1] It spans Massachusetts Avenue N.W. between 18th and 35th street, bounded by Scott Circle to the south and the United States Naval Observatory to the north; the term is often applied to nearby streets and neighborhoods that also host diplomatic buildings, such as Kalorama.[2]

Private residences and embassies located on Massachusetts Avenue between 22nd Street and Sheridan Circle
The Indian Embassy building with the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial in the foreground.

Of the 177 diplomatic missions in the city, the majority are located on or near Embassy Row, including those of Italy, Australia, India, Greece, Egypt, Ireland, Japan, and the United Kingdom.[1] Due to the large number of well-preserved Gilded Age estates and townhouses, many of which house diplomatic missions or dignitaries, Embassy Row has been protected as part of the Massachusetts Avenue Historic District. Its historic and multicultural character has also made the area a center of tourism and local cultural life.[citation needed]

History edit

Considered Washington's premier residential address in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Massachusetts Avenue became known for its numerous mansions housing the city's social and political elites. Consequently, the segment between Scott Circle and Sheridan Circle gained the nickname "Millionaires' Row".

The Great Depression of 1929 led many to sell their homes; the often illustrious and expansive estates were well-suited for housing diplomatic missions as well as lodges of social clubs, giving Embassy Row its present name and identity. The relocation to Embassy Row of diplomatic representations, many of which had been established in Meridian Hill in previous decades, was further catalyzed by the construction of the British Embassy, commissioned in 1925 and completed in 1930, and the Japanese Embassy, built in 1931. The greatest number of embassies and chanceries moved to Embassy Row and the neighboring Kalorama neighborhood in the 1940s and early 1950s.[3]

On the southeastern section of the row, between Scott Circle and Dupont Circle, many individual houses and mansions were replaced by larger office or apartment buildings between the 1930s and the 1970s. More recently, several prominent think tanks have clustered in that area, which has occasionally been referred to as Think Tank Row.

Many of Embassy Row's diplomatic buildings open to the public once a year in May, an initiative nicknamed Passport DC. This event was started in 2007 by the embassies of member states of the European Union, and extended in 2008 to other countries around the world under coordination by Cultural Tourism DC.[4] Within this program, the EU embassies still open on a separate day, labelled EU Open House. A separate program, the Embassy Series, started in 1994 and coordinates concerts organized in the embassy buildings.[5]

Embassy Row is protected as the Massachusetts Avenue Historic District, created in 1974 following controversy about the demolition of historic townhouses on 1722-28 Massachusetts Ave NW.[6] Many of its notable buildings are listed in the DC Inventory of Historic Sites.[7] Because few historic buildings remain on Scott Circle, the eastern boundary of the Historic District was set on 17th Street NW, but, since three embassies are located there and none farther east, Scott Circle is included in this article's definition of Embassy Row. The Western boundary used here is identical to that of the Historic District, namely Observatory Circle. However, some (e.g. real estate professionals) describe Embassy Row as extending as far west as Wisconsin Avenue NW.

From Scott Circle to Sheridan Circle edit

This section of Massachusetts Avenue was the one known as the "Millionaires' Row" of Washington, D.C., in the late 19th and early 20th century.

North Side

South Side

From Sheridan Circle to Observatory Circle edit

North Side

South Side

Statuary edit

The monumental setting of the Row has favored the erection of many memorials and statues. They are erected either on private grounds, many of them by the embassies to showcase a prominent national figure, or on public (federal) land following an Act of Congress, including the successive Circles and several triangular parks created by the intersections between the diagonal avenue and the L'Enfant Plan grid. A special case is the statue of Winston Churchill, which has one foot on the grounds of the British Embassy and the other on federal land to symbolize the UK-US alliance.[35]

Other embassies in Washington, D.C. edit

In the immediate vicinity of Embassy Row, many other embassies and diplomatic residences are located within one or two blocks of Massachusetts Avenue on cross streets, particularly R, S, and 22nd Streets NW near Sheridan Circle, and in the Kalorama neighborhood north of Embassy Row. The section of New Hampshire Avenue NW north of Dupont Circle alone is home to the embassies of Argentina, Belarus, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Grenada, Jamaica, Montenegro, Mozambique, Embassy of Namibia in Washington, D.C., Nicaragua, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe.

In the early days of Washington, D.C., most diplomats and ambassadors lived on or around Lafayette Square. The first purpose-designed embassy building in Washington was the embassy of the United Kingdom on 1300 Connecticut Avenue, immediately south of Embassy Row, built in 1872 by Sir Edward Thornton on John Fraser's design, and demolished in 1931. Thornton's choice of location, at a time when Dupont Circle was still almost entirely undeveloped, may be considered the origin of Embassy Row as a diplomatic neighborhood.

In the first three decades of the 20th century, several European legations gathered farther northeast, on a section of 16th Street near Meridian Hill Park. This area was specifically developed by local resident Mary Foote Henderson to attract embassies, and she even aimed at having the residences of the U.S. president and vice-president relocated there. However, the neighborhood was hit hard by the Great Depression, and Embassy Row became a comparatively more attractive location for diplomats in the following decade. Former embassy buildings in the Meridian Hill area include those of France (arch. George Oakley Totten Jr., 1907, now the Council for Professional Recognition); Mexico (arch. Nathan C. Wyeth, 1911, now the Mexican Cultural Institute); the Netherlands (arch. George Oakley Totten Jr., 1922, now the Embassy of Ecuador); Spain (arch. George Oakley Totten Jr., 1923 and addition by Jules Henri de Sibour, 1927; now the Spain-USA Foundation); Egypt (arch. George Oakley Totten Jr., 1924, now Meridian Hall); Italy (arch. Warren and Wetmore, 1925, currently under redevelopment); and Brazil (arch. George Oakley Totten Jr., 1927, later embassy of Hungary and now the Josephine Butler Parks Center). The embassies of Cuba (arch. Macneil & Macneil, 1918), Lithuania (arch. George Oakley Totten Jr., 1909), and Poland (arch. George Oakley Totten Jr., 1910) are still located in the Meridian Hill neighborhood. A bit further up 16th Street, the Embassy Building No. 10, built in the late 1920s, never actually served as an embassy despite being designed as one.

A high-security enclave in Van Ness, one mile north of the Naval Observatory on the federally owned former grounds of the National Bureau of Standards in Cleveland Park, was developed from 1968 as the International Chancery Center. It is home to the embassies of Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Monaco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, Slovakia, and the United Arab Emirates.[42]

A number of other embassies are scattered south of Massachusetts Avenue and closer to the National Mall, notably those of Canada, Mexico, Spain, Saudi Arabia, and the European Union. Still others are located in or around Georgetown, such as those of France, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Thailand, Ukraine, and Venezuela. The Caribbean Chancery on 3216 New Mexico Avenue NW hosts the embassies of four English-speaking Caribbean nations.

See also edit

References edit

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This article is about the section of Massachusetts Avenue in Washington D C For other uses see Embassy Row disambiguation Embassy Row is the informal name for a section of Northwest Washington D C with a high concentration of embassies diplomatic missions and diplomatic residences 1 It spans Massachusetts Avenue N W between 18th and 35th street bounded by Scott Circle to the south and the United States Naval Observatory to the north the term is often applied to nearby streets and neighborhoods that also host diplomatic buildings such as Kalorama 2 Private residences and embassies located on Massachusetts Avenue between 22nd Street and Sheridan Circle The Indian Embassy building with the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial in the foreground Of the 177 diplomatic missions in the city the majority are located on or near Embassy Row including those of Italy Australia India Greece Egypt Ireland Japan and the United Kingdom 1 Due to the large number of well preserved Gilded Age estates and townhouses many of which house diplomatic missions or dignitaries Embassy Row has been protected as part of the Massachusetts Avenue Historic District Its historic and multicultural character has also made the area a center of tourism and local cultural life citation needed Contents 1 History 2 From Scott Circle to Sheridan Circle 3 From Sheridan Circle to Observatory Circle 4 Statuary 5 Other embassies in Washington D C 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksHistory editConsidered Washington s premier residential address in the late 19th and early 20th centuries Massachusetts Avenue became known for its numerous mansions housing the city s social and political elites Consequently the segment between Scott Circle and Sheridan Circle gained the nickname Millionaires Row The Great Depression of 1929 led many to sell their homes the often illustrious and expansive estates were well suited for housing diplomatic missions as well as lodges of social clubs giving Embassy Row its present name and identity The relocation to Embassy Row of diplomatic representations many of which had been established in Meridian Hill in previous decades was further catalyzed by the construction of the British Embassy commissioned in 1925 and completed in 1930 and the Japanese Embassy built in 1931 The greatest number of embassies and chanceries moved to Embassy Row and the neighboring Kalorama neighborhood in the 1940s and early 1950s 3 On the southeastern section of the row between Scott Circle and Dupont Circle many individual houses and mansions were replaced by larger office or apartment buildings between the 1930s and the 1970s More recently several prominent think tanks have clustered in that area which has occasionally been referred to as Think Tank Row Many of Embassy Row s diplomatic buildings open to the public once a year in May an initiative nicknamed Passport DC This event was started in 2007 by the embassies of member states of the European Union and extended in 2008 to other countries around the world under coordination by Cultural Tourism DC 4 Within this program the EU embassies still open on a separate day labelled EU Open House A separate program the Embassy Series started in 1994 and coordinates concerts organized in the embassy buildings 5 Embassy Row is protected as the Massachusetts Avenue Historic District created in 1974 following controversy about the demolition of historic townhouses on 1722 28 Massachusetts Ave NW 6 Many of its notable buildings are listed in the DC Inventory of Historic Sites 7 Because few historic buildings remain on Scott Circle the eastern boundary of the Historic District was set on 17th Street NW but since three embassies are located there and none farther east Scott Circle is included in this article s definition of Embassy Row The Western boundary used here is identical to that of the Historic District namely Observatory Circle However some e g real estate professionals describe Embassy Row as extending as far west as Wisconsin Avenue NW From Scott Circle to Sheridan Circle editThis section of Massachusetts Avenue was the one known as the Millionaires Row of Washington D C in the late 19th and early 20th century North Side 1499 Massachusetts Ave NW Post Massachusetts Avenue apartment building arch Esocoff amp Associates 2002 1515 Massachusetts Ave NW American Association for the Advancement of Science building arch Faulkner Fryer and Vanderpool 1956 now Embassy of Tunisia 1500 Rhode Island Ave NW Brodhead Bell Morton Mansion now the Embassy of Hungary arch John Fraser 1879 remodeled by John Russell Pope 1912 1 Scott Circle NW General Scott Apartments arch Robert O Sholz 1942 8 1601 Massachusetts Ave NW Embassy of Australia arch Bates Smart amp McCutcheon 1965 1617 Massachusetts Ave NW Daniel C Stapleton House arch Clarke Waggaman 1917 now annex of the Embassy of the Philippines 1619 Massachusetts Ave NW Forest Industries building arch Keyes Lesbridge amp Condon 1961 now Benjamin T Rome Building of Johns Hopkins University 1625 Massachusetts Ave NW Airline Pilots Association building arch Vlastimil Koubek 1972 now also Washington campus of Johns Hopkins Carey Business School 1701 Massachusetts Ave NW The Bay State apartment building arch Robert O Sholz 1939 9 1711 Massachusetts Ave NW Boston House apartment building arch Berla amp Abel 1950 10 1717 Massachusetts Ave NW Bernstein Offit building of Johns Hopkins University the upper two floors used to host the embassy of the German Democratic Republic arch Cooper amp Auerback 1964 11 1727 Massachusetts Ave NW The Winthrop apartment building arch Alvin L Aubinoe 1940 12 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW Brookings Institution main building arch Faulkner Kingsbury amp Stenhouse 1960 1779 Massachusetts Ave NW Carnegie Endowment for International Peace arch Smith Hinchman amp Gryll 1989 also hosting the Embassy of Papua New Guinea 1789 Massachusetts Ave NW numbered 1785 until 2016 McCormick Apartments arch Jules Henri de Sibour 1917 now American Enterprise Institute 1801 Massachusetts Ave NW Herbert Wadsworth House arch George Cary 1902 now the Sulgrave Club 15 Dupont Circle NW Robert W Patterson House arch Stanford White 1902 now Ampeer Dupont Circle apartments 11 Dupont Circle NW office building 1974 home of the Peterson Institute for International Economics until 2001 1500 New Hampshire Ave NW Dupont Circle Hotel 1950 1501 Connecticut Ave NW commercial building 1923 now Starbucks Coffee 1913 Massachusetts Ave NW Dupont Circle Branch of the Riggs National Bank arch George Nicholas Ray 1923 now PNC 13 2001 Massachusetts Ave NW apartment house arch Gertrude Sawyer 1935 now Kossuth House of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America 1935 2007 Massachusetts Ave NW Horace A Taylor House arch George Oakley Totten Jr 1901 14 2009 Massachusetts Ave NW Hershell Main House later Alice Roosevelt Longworth house built 1881 front rebuilt 1910 now the Washington Legal Foundation 2015 Massachusetts Ave NW Embassy Row Hotel rebranded The Ven Embassy Row in late 2020 arch Fischer and Elmore 1971 2025 Massachusetts Ave NW Samuel M Bryan House arch W Bruce Gray 1885 now the Urban Alliance Foundation 2027 Massachusetts Ave NW House 1911 now the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism 15 1600 21st Street NW D Clinch Phillips House arch Hornblower amp Marshall 1897 now the Phillips Collection 2107 Massachusetts Ave NW T Morris Murray House 1901 now Embassy of India 2121 Massachusetts Ave NW Richard T Townsend House arch Carrere and Hastings 1901 now the Cosmos Club 2131 Massachusetts Ave NW George W Barrie House arch Marsh amp Peter 1905 now Embassy of Estonia 3 2201 Massachusetts Ave NW Frederick A Miller House arch Paul J Pelz 1901 2203 Massachusetts Ave NW Emeline D Lovett House arch Alexander Millar 1890 3 2205 Massachusetts Ave NW Anna Jenness Miller House arch Waddy Wood 1920 now the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists 3 2207 Massachusetts Ave NW townhouse arch Louis D Meline 1902 16 now Embassy of Turkmenistan 3 2209 Massachusetts Ave NW townhouse arch Wyeth amp Cresson 1911 now Embassy of Paraguay 2211 Massachusetts Ave NW Irene Rucker Sheridan House arch Wood Donn amp Deming 1904 2217 Massachusetts Ave NW Embassy of Greece arch Angelos Demetriou 2006 2221 Massachusetts Ave NW Hennen Jennings House arch George Oakley Totten Jr 1906 now residence of the Ambassador of Greece South Side 1500 Massachusetts Ave NW 1500 Massachusetts apartment building 1952 1616 Rhode Island Ave NW Center for Strategic and International Studies arch Hickok Cole 2013 1600 Massachusetts Ave NW Embassy of the Philippines 1993 1700 Massachusetts Ave NW Emily J Wilkins House arch Jules Henri de Sibour 1909 now Embassy of Peru 1708 Massachusetts Ave NW Henry C Nevins House arch Harvey L Page 1891 17 now Embassy of Trinidad and Tobago 1720 Massachusetts Ave NW town house now Stephanie Tubbs Jones building of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation 1724 Massachusetts Ave NW Embassy of Colombia 1981 1732 Massachusetts Ave NW J C McGuire House arch Glenn Brown 1889 now Embassy of Chile 1736 Massachusetts Ave NW now Consular section of the Embassy of Chile 1740 Massachusetts Ave NW Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies 1962 1746 Massachusetts Ave NW Clarence Moore House arch Jules Henri de Sibour 1909 now Embassy of Uzbekistan 1750 Massachusetts Ave NW Peterson Institute for International Economics arch James von Klemperer for Kohn Pedersen Fox 2001 1776 Massachusetts Ave NW office building 1969 1780 Massachusetts Ave NW Ingalls House arch Jules Henri de Sibour 1912 now office of the President of the Brookings Institution 1800 Massachusetts Ave NW office building 1979 now the Service Employees International Union 1369 Connecticut Ave NW U S Trust Company building arch Jules Henri de Sibour 1912 now SunTrust branch 18 1350 Connecticut Ave NW Dupont Circle Building arch Mihran Mesrobian 1931 21 Dupont Circle NW Euram Building arch Hartman Cox 1972 19 1 Dupont Circle NW office building arch Vlastimil Koubek 1968 now the American Council on Education 2000 P Street NW The Toronto apartment building arch Albert H Beers 1908 2000 Massachusetts Ave NW James G Blaine Mansion arch George Fraser 1881 now Phillips amp Cohen LLP 2012 Massachusetts Ave NW Joseph Beale House arch Glenn Brown 1897 now Embassy of Portugal 2020 Massachusetts Ave NW Walsh McLean House arch Henry Andersen 1903 now Embassy of Indonesia 2100 Massachusetts Ave NW Fairfax Hotel arch B Stanley Simmons 1927 2118 Massachusetts Ave NW Larz Anderson House arch Arthur Little amp Herbert W C Browne 1905 now Society of the Cincinnati 2122 Massachusetts Ave NW State House apartment building arch Matthew G Lepley 1951 20 2200 Massachusetts Ave NW Alexander Stewart House arch Jules Henri de Sibour 1909 now Embassy of Luxembourg 3 2202 Massachusetts Ave NW townhouse 1914 now office of the Defense Attache of the Embassy of Turkey 2208 Massachusetts Ave NW townhouse arch Louis D Meline 1900 16 now Embassy of Togo 2210 Massachusetts Ave NW townhouse arch Louis D Meline 1901 16 now Embassy of Sudan 2212 Massachusetts Ave NW townhouse arch Louis D Meline 1898 3 2214 16 Massachusetts Ave NW twin townhouses arch George Nicholas Ray 1931 2220 Massachusetts Ave NW townhouse arch George Nicholas Ray 1914 now Embassy of the Bahamas 2228 Massachusetts Ave NW townhouse arch George Oakley Totten Jr amp Laussat Roger 1903 now office of the Defense and Military Attache of the Embassy of Greece 21 2230 Massachusetts Ave NW James C Hooe House arch George Oakley Totten Jr 1907 2232 Massachusetts Ave NW townhouse 1900 now Economic and Commercial Bureau of the Embassy of Egypt 2234 Massachusetts Ave NW Henrietta M Halliday House arch William Penn Cresson 1908 now Embassy of Ireland 1607 23rd St NW Frank Ellis House arch Carrere and Hastings 1907 now Embassy of RomaniaFrom Sheridan Circle to Observatory Circle editNorth Side 2223 Massachusetts Ave NW American Society of International Law arch George Oakley Totten Jr 1907 2225 R St NW Embassy of Armenia 2249 R St NW C Peyton Russell House arch Nathan C Wyeth 1908 now Embassy of Kenya 2251 R St NW Frederick A Keep House arch Nathan C Wyeth 1906 now residence of the Ambassador of Vietnam 2253 R St NW Charles L Fitzhugh House arch Waddy Wood 1904 now residence of the Ambassador of the Philippines 2301 Massachusetts Ave NW Joseph Beale House arch Glenn Brown 1909 now residence of the Ambassador of Egypt 2305 Massachusetts Ave NW Sarah S Wyeth House arch Nathan C Wyeth 1909 now residence of the Ambassador of Chile 2311 Massachusetts Ave NW Gibson Fahnestock House arch Nathan C Wyeth 1910 embassy of the Republic of China from 1952 to 1978 22 now Embassy of Haiti 2315 Massachusetts Ave NW Francis B Moran House arch George Oakley Totten Jr 1909 formerly embassy of Persia Iran 1935 43 then embassy of Pakistan 1951 2011 2339 Massachusetts Ave NW Wendell Mansions apartment building arch Edward Hughes Glidden 1906 2343 Massachusetts Ave NW Former chancery of the embassy of Austria arch George Nicholas Ray 1930 now Embassy of Croatia 23 2349 Massachusetts Ave NW Christian Hauge House arch George Oakley Totten Jr 1906 later embassy of Czechoslovakia 1929 72 and now Embassy of Cameroon 2347 S Street NW Owsley House arch Ward Brown 1929 now residence of the Ambassador of the Netherlands 3 2401 Massachusetts Ave NW Former chancery of the Embassy of Malaysia 1969 now Embassy of Chad 2419 Massachusetts Ave NW Louis Arthur Coolidge House arch William Penn Cresson amp Nathan C Wyeth 1906 now Embassy of Zambia 2433 Massachusetts Ave NW Harry Wardman House arch Mihran Mesrobian 1934 now Embassy of the Marshall Islands 24 2443 Massachusetts Ave NW Residence of the Ambassador of Venezuela arch Chester A Patterson 1939 2501 Massachusetts Ave NW C H Harlow House arch Waddy Wood 1916 later home of Robert A Taft 25 2511 Massachusetts Ave NW house 1942 now Embassy of Lesotho 2525 Massachusetts Ave NW Embassy of Turkey arch Shalom Baranes Associates 1999 2535 Massachusetts Ave NW house 1953 now Embassy of Belize 2551 Massachusetts Ave NW Islamic Center of Washington arch Mario Rossi in association with Irwin S Porter amp Sons 1957 2929 Massachusetts Ave NW Maie H Williams House arch Clarke Waggaman 1918 26 3003 Massachusetts Ave NW Alanson B Houghton House arch Frederick H Brooke 1935 former residence of the Ambassador of Iran 27 3005 Massachusetts Ave NW former Embassy of Iran 1959 3051 Massachusetts Ave NW Embassy of South Africa 1936 expanded 1964 3301 Massachusetts Ave NW Embassy of Finland arch Mikko Heikkinen and Markku Komonen 1994 3339 Massachusetts Ave NW Embassy of the Holy See arch Frederick V Murphy 1938 3401 Massachusetts Ave NW Residence of the Ambassador of Norway arch John J Whelan 1931 3415 Massachusetts Ave NW Joseph W Babcock House arch Arthur B Heaton 1912 now Embassy of Cape Verde and Embassy of Timor Leste 3417 Massachusetts Ave NW Soka Gakkai International USA Buddhist Center arch William Hellmuth 2008 28 3421 Massachusetts Ave NW house 1927 now Embassy of Iraq South Side 1606 23rd St NW Edward H Everett House arch George Oakley Totten Jr 1914 now residence of the Ambassador of Turkey 2304 Massachusetts Ave NW house arch Louis D Meline 1901 16 now part of the Embassy of Latvia 2306 Massachusetts Ave NW Alice Pike Barney House arch Waddy Wood 1902 now Embassy of Latvia 2320 Massachusetts Ave NW detached house arch Frank Russell White 1918 now Consular section of the Embassy of South Korea 2324 Massachusetts Ave NW town house arch Louis D Meline 1902 16 now annex of the Embassy of Greece 2328 Massachusetts Ave NW town house arch Donn and Deming 1922 2332 38 Massachusetts Ave NW row of four townhouses arch Nicholas T Haller 1899 3 2340 Massachusetts Ave NW townhouse 1914 now Embassy of Burkina Faso 2344 Massachusetts Ave NW George Wallace William Hanger House arch William James Palmer 1907 29 2346 Massachusetts Ave NW George Cabot Lodge House arch Wood Donn amp Deming 1905 30 2360 Massachusetts Ave NW townhouse arch William James Palmer 1911 now Embassy of Kyrgyzstan 2370 Massachusetts Ave NW Alice W B Stanley House arch Smith amp Edwards 1930 now Korean Cultural Center 31 2374 Massachusetts Ave NW townhouse 1921 now Embassy of Madagascar 2406 Massachusetts Ave NW Nellie and Isabelle Sedgeley House arch Nathan C Wyeth 1911 now Cultural Office of the Embassy of the UAE 3 2408 Massachusetts Ave NW Granville Roland Fortescue House arch Nathan C Wyeth 1911 now Embassy of Malawi 2412 Frederick Atherton House arch Nathan C Wyeth and Francis P Sullivan 1930 2424 Massachusetts Ave NW Embassy of Cote d Ivoire arch Wanchul Lee 2004 2432 Massachusetts Ave NW house 1951 now residence of the Ambassador of Algeria 2440 Massachusetts Ave NW Charles Mason Remey House arch Smith amp Edwards c 1930 now Permanent mission of Mexico to the OAS 2450 Massachusetts Ave NW Embassy of South Korea arch Horace W Peaslee 1953 32 2500 Massachusetts Ave NW apartment house arch Louis E Sholtes 1922 33 2516 Massachusetts Ave NW Old Ambassador s Residence of the Embassy of Japan arch Delano amp Aldrich 1931 2520 Massachusetts Ave NW Chancery of the Embassy of Japan arch Robert B Anderson 1986 2536 Massachusetts Ave NW Chancery Annex of the Embassy of India 1954 2540 Massachusetts Ave NW The Army and Navy apartment house arch Harry L Edwards 1925 34 2558 Massachusetts Ave NW Spanish Mission to the Organization of American States 1926 3000 Whitehaven St NW Embassy of Italy arch Piero Sartogo 2000 3025 Whitehaven St NW Embassy of Sri Lanka 3200 Whitehaven St NW Embassy of Denmark 1960 3000 Massachusetts Ave NW Robert S McCormick House arch John Russell Pope 1928 now residence of the Ambassador of Brazil 3006 Massachusetts Ave NW Embassy of Brazil arch Olavo Redig de Campos 1971 3014 Massachusetts Ave NW house 1941 now Embassy of Bolivia 3100 Massachusetts Ave NW Embassy of the United Kingdom arch Edwin Lutyens 1931 chancery building arch Eric Bedford added in the late 1950s 3450 Massachusetts Ave NW United States Naval ObservatoryStatuary editThe monumental setting of the Row has favored the erection of many memorials and statues They are erected either on private grounds many of them by the embassies to showcase a prominent national figure or on public federal land following an Act of Congress including the successive Circles and several triangular parks created by the intersections between the diagonal avenue and the L Enfant Plan grid A special case is the statue of Winston Churchill which has one foot on the grounds of the British Embassy and the other on federal land to symbolize the UK US alliance 35 Samuel Hahnemann Monument on the eastern side of Scott Circle by Charles Henry Niehaus 1900 Equestrian statue of Winfield Scott by Henry Kirke Brown 1874 the Daniel Webster Memorial by Gaetano Trentanove 1900 a modern bust of Miguel Grau in front of the Embassy of Peru 2011 a bust of Bernardo O Higgins by Galvarino Ponce Morel in front of the Embassy of Chile 2009 the Dupont Circle Fountain by Daniel Chester French 1920 a statue of Hindu goddess Saraswati by a Balinese sculpting team on the grounds of the Indonesian Embassy with a group of three children including a young Barack Obama in front 2013 36 the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial by Gautam Pal in front of the Indian Embassy 2000 a bronze cast of George Washington by Jean Antoine Houdon in front of the Society of the Cincinnati 2008 This statue was moved away in June 2020 37 the statue of Tomas Masaryk by Vincenc Makovsky 1937 cast 1968 erected 2002 a copy in reduced size of the 1969 bronze statue of Eleftherios Venizelos by Yannis Pappas now in Freedom Park in Athens erected in front of the Greek Embassy 2009 the statue of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk by Jeffery L Hall in front of the Turkish Ambassador s residence 2013 38 Equestrian statue of Philip Sheridan by Gutzon Borglum 1908 the statue of Philip Jaisohn in front of the South Korean Consular Section by Jae kil Lee 2008 a bust of Orlando Letelier commemorating his assassination by Barry Woods Johnston in front of the residence of the Ambassador of Chile 2018 39 the statue of St Jerome by Ivan Mestrovic in front of the Croatian Embassy 1954 relocated c 1998 a cast of Allow Me by Seward Johnson in front of the house on 2346 Massachusetts Ave NW 1984 the statue of Robert Emmet by Jerome Connor 1916 relocated 1966 an abstract sculpture by Dong koo Yun in front of the Korean Embassy 2000 another statue of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk this one cast in fiberglass by Ragip Cicen donated by Ibrahim Firtina and standing inside the Turkish Embassy 2004 40 the statue of Winston Churchill by William McVey in front of the British Embassy 1966 the statue of Nelson Mandela by Jean Doyle in front of the South African Embassy 2013 41 the monument to Khalil Gibran by Gordon S Kray 1991 the statue of Crown Princess Martha Louise of Norway by Kirsten Kokkin in front of the Norwegian Embassy 2005 Other embassies in Washington D C editIn the immediate vicinity of Embassy Row many other embassies and diplomatic residences are located within one or two blocks of Massachusetts Avenue on cross streets particularly R S and 22nd Streets NW near Sheridan Circle and in the Kalorama neighborhood north of Embassy Row The section of New Hampshire Avenue NW north of Dupont Circle alone is home to the embassies of Argentina Belarus Botswana the Democratic Republic of the Congo Eritrea Eswatini Grenada Jamaica Montenegro Mozambique Embassy of Namibia in Washington D C Nicaragua Rwanda and Zimbabwe In the early days of Washington D C most diplomats and ambassadors lived on or around Lafayette Square The first purpose designed embassy building in Washington was the embassy of the United Kingdom on 1300 Connecticut Avenue immediately south of Embassy Row built in 1872 by Sir Edward Thornton on John Fraser s design and demolished in 1931 Thornton s choice of location at a time when Dupont Circle was still almost entirely undeveloped may be considered the origin of Embassy Row as a diplomatic neighborhood In the first three decades of the 20th century several European legations gathered farther northeast on a section of 16th Street near Meridian Hill Park This area was specifically developed by local resident Mary Foote Henderson to attract embassies and she even aimed at having the residences of the U S president and vice president relocated there However the neighborhood was hit hard by the Great Depression and Embassy Row became a comparatively more attractive location for diplomats in the following decade Former embassy buildings in the Meridian Hill area include those of France arch George Oakley Totten Jr 1907 now the Council for Professional Recognition Mexico arch Nathan C Wyeth 1911 now the Mexican Cultural Institute the Netherlands arch George Oakley Totten Jr 1922 now the Embassy of Ecuador Spain arch George Oakley Totten Jr 1923 and addition by Jules Henri de Sibour 1927 now the Spain USA Foundation Egypt arch George Oakley Totten Jr 1924 now Meridian Hall Italy arch Warren and Wetmore 1925 currently under redevelopment and Brazil arch George Oakley Totten Jr 1927 later embassy of Hungary and now the Josephine Butler Parks Center The embassies of Cuba arch Macneil amp Macneil 1918 Lithuania arch George Oakley Totten Jr 1909 and Poland arch George Oakley Totten Jr 1910 are still located in the Meridian Hill neighborhood A bit further up 16th Street the Embassy Building No 10 built in the late 1920s never actually served as an embassy despite being designed as one A high security enclave in Van Ness one mile north of the Naval Observatory on the federally owned former grounds of the National Bureau of Standards in Cleveland Park was developed from 1968 as the International Chancery Center It is home to the embassies of Austria Bahrain Bangladesh Brunei China Egypt Ethiopia Ghana Israel Jordan Kuwait Malaysia Monaco Nigeria Pakistan Singapore Slovakia and the United Arab Emirates 42 A number of other embassies are scattered south of Massachusetts Avenue and closer to the National Mall notably those of Canada Mexico Spain Saudi Arabia and the European Union Still others are located in or around Georgetown such as those of France Germany Russia Sweden Thailand Ukraine and Venezuela The Caribbean Chancery on 3216 New Mexico Avenue NW hosts the embassies of four English speaking Caribbean nations See also editCharles Carroll Glover List of diplomatic missions in Washington D C References edit a b International Embassies in Washington DC Washington DC washington org Retrieved 2022 03 25 EMBASSY ROW Washington Walks a b c d e f g h i j Emily Hotaling Eig and Julie Mueller Traceries 1989 National Register of Historic Places Registration Form Sheridan Kalorama Historic District Passport DC Still Opening Doors And Not Just to Embassies The Washington Diplomat May 2012 About Us The Embassy Series Massachusetts Avenue Historic District brochure PDF 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Meline PDF D C Office of Planning 2010 DC Architects Directory Harvey Linsley Page PDF D C Office of Planning 2010 Lost amp Found Washington The Hopkins Miller Houses on Dupont Circle The House History Man April 9 2012 Euram Building SAH Archipedia Archived from the original on 2015 09 25 Retrieved 2014 04 26 DC Architects Directory Matthew G Lepley PDF D C Office of Planning 2010 George Oakley Totten Living Places Dickey Christopher December 12 1978 Third Embassy Property Relinquished by Taiwan The Washington Post Retrieved November 14 2015 Sigurd Pacher Austria s Chanceries and Residences in Washington Austrian Embassy Julia Blakely December 22 2013 Wardman and the British Embassy washingtonembassygardens wordpress com CH Harlow House Philadelphia Architects amp Buildings Count Laszlo and Countess Gladys Vanderbilt Szechenyi House Maie H Williams House SAH Archipedia 16 July 2018 Julia Blakely December 22 2013 Frederick H Brooke washingtonembassygardens wordpress com Newly Completed SGI USA Washington D C Culture Center Opening on Embassy Row Soka Gakkai International June 25 2008 permanent dead link NRHP Registration Form Chapel of the Incarnation Brandywine MD PDF 2000 p 8 7 George Cabot Lodge House Philadelphia Architects amp Buildings Smith and Edwards SAH Archipedia DC Architects Directory Horace Whittier Peaslee PDF D C Office of Planning November 2011 James M Goode 1988 Best Addresses A Century of Washington s Distinguished Apartment Houses Smithsonian p 222 James M Goode 1988 Best Addresses A Century of Washington s Distinguished Apartment Houses Smithsonian p 235 CHURCHILL Winston Statue at the British Embassy in Washington D C dcMemorials com Archived from the original on 2011 08 19 Retrieved 2014 05 03 Mike Ghouse June 19 2013 Goddess Saraswati Statue With Barack Obama Symbolizes Relationship Between Indonesia and the U S HuffingtonPost Prince Of Petworth 2 July 2020 Society of the Cincinnati appears to have removed their George Washington Statue from Mass Ave Popville Bulent Atalay December 10 2013 A Defining Statue of Ataturk National Geographic NewsWatch Michael Laris February 26 2018 A Chilean and American monument to Pinochet bombing victims rises in Washington Washington Post James M Goode 2008 Washington Sculpture A Cultural History of Outdoor Sculpture in the Nation s Capital Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press Mandela Statue Unveiled in Washington Voice of America September 21 2013 United States Department of State History of the International Chancery Center ICC Archived from the original on 2017 04 29 Retrieved 5 October 2018 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Embassy Row Washington D C United States Department of the Treasury List of addresses of foreign embassies and consulates in the U S maintained for the International Trade Data System initiative 38 54 57 N 77 04 15 W 38 9157204 N 77 0708922 W 38 9157204 77 0708922 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Embassy Row 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