Three former US Secretaries of War, Jacob Dickinson, Newton Baker, and Dwight Davis, lived in three different Washington houses while serving in the Cabinet. All three buildings are still standing today.
The Windom House at Scott Circle was home to a Treasury Secretary who died mid-speech in 1891. The Queen Anne mansion was razed in 1964 and is now the site of the Australian Embassy.
Friendship was the McLean estate where Evalyn Walsh McLean kept the Hope Diamond. In 1942 it became apartments for 3,500 war workers.
Russia’s ambassador Baron de Bodisco was nearly 60 when he married 16-year-old Georgetown schoolgirl Harriet Williams.
Get a glimpse into history with this amazing old photograph of the Cuban Embassy on 16th Street. See the image and read more about it from the Library of Congress!
The Italian embassy at 16th & Fuller is a tragic reminder of its former glory. Learn the history of this sad building and what it used to be in its heyday.
A Friday classified in the 1906 Evening Star offered a superb stone residence at 1708 Q Street NW for $13,000. The Schneider row house later became the Washington home of Haiti’s Minister to the United States, Dantès Bellegarde.
Explore the diplomatic history between Canada and the US through the 1927 arrival of Vincent Massey, the first Canadian diplomat posted to Washington, DC. Learn more about the “new kids in class” phenomenon and how embassies are accepted into their new community.
From the former residence of California’s Senator James Phelan to the Embassy of Sweden and then the Embassy of Kenya, explore the history of the Kenyan Embassy in Washington D.C. Learn about the royal visit, the accidental vandalism and the 40th anniversary celebration of the embassy.
