Here’s a terrific old photo from 1917 of the British Embassy, which was located at 1300 Connecticut Ave. NW, just above N St. and across the street from the Starbucks today (everything is across from a Starbucks). This was the first building in Washington built specifically to be an embassy.
![British Embassy](https://ghostsofdc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2014/09/08311u.jpg)
Source: Library of Congress
You can see the embassy on the map below.
![1919 map of Connecticut and N St.](https://ghostsofdc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-06-at-9.22.15-PM.jpg)
And here is the same intersection today on a Google Map.