Amazing 1888 Photo of Windom House at 16th St. & Mass Ave (Now Australian Embassy)

Published October 22, 2013Updated April 22, 20261 min readby ghostsofdc

This is an amazing old photo from 1888. It shows the Windom House at the intersection of 16th St. and Mass Ave. This is where the Australian Embassy sits today.

View northwest past the equestrian statue (by Henry Kirke Brown) of General Winfield Scott. Includes the Queen Anne-style Windom House on the northwest corner of Massachusetts Avenue and 16th Street NW, and the Hutchins House next door to the west. (Current site of the Australian Embassy). William H. Seaman Photograph Collection, HSW (1888)

Source: Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

A few blocks east, another Massachusetts Avenue mansion followed the same arc: built in 1881, bought by Germany in 1893, and torn down in 1959. That one was the German Embassy.