Embassy Row is the informal name for a section of

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, with a high concentration of

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s, and diplomatic residences. It spans Massachusetts Avenue N.W. between 18th and 35th street, bounded by

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to the south and the

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to the north; the term is often applied to nearby streets and neighborhoods that also host diplomatic buildings, such as Kalorama. 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. Due to the large number of well-preserved

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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.

History

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

and

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gained the nickname "

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". The

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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

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in previous decades, was further catalyzed by the construction of the

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, commissioned in 1925 and completed in 1930, and the

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, 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. On the southeastern section of the row, between Scott Circle and

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, many individual houses and mansions were replaced by larger office or apartment buildings between the 1930s and the 1970s. More recently, several prominent

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s 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

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, and extended in 2008 to other countries around the world under coordination by

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. 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. 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. Many of its notable buildings are listed in the DC Inventory of Historic Sites. 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

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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

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, 1912) * 1 Scott Circle NW: General Scott Apartments (arch. Robert O. Sholz, 1942) * 1601 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of Australia (arch. Bates, Smart & McCutcheon, 1965) * 1617 Massachusetts Ave NW: Daniel C. Stapleton House (arch.

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, 1917), now annex of the Embassy of the Philippines * 1619 Massachusetts Ave NW:

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building (arch. Keyes, Lesbridge & Condon, 1961), now Benjamin T. Rome Building of

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* 1625 Massachusetts Ave NW:

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building (arch. Vlastimil Koubek, 1972), now also Washington campus of

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* 1701 Massachusetts Ave NW: The Bay State apartment building (arch. Robert O. Sholz, 1939) * 1711 Massachusetts Ave NW: Boston House apartment building (arch. Berla & Abel, 1950) * 1717 Massachusetts Ave NW: Bernstein- Offit building of

; the upper two floors used to host the embassy of the

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(arch. Cooper & Auerback, 1964) * 1727 Massachusetts Ave NW: The Winthrop apartment building (arch. Alvin L. Aubinoe, 1940) * 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW:

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main building (arch. Faulkner, Kingsbury & Stenhouse, 1960) * 1779 Massachusetts Ave NW:

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(arch. Smith, Hinchman & Gryll, 1989), also hosting the Embassy of Papua New Guinea * 1789 Massachusetts Ave NW (numbered 1785 until 2016): McCormick Apartments (arch.

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, 1917), now

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* 1801 Massachusetts Ave NW: Herbert Wadsworth House (arch. George Cary, 1902), now the

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* 15 Dupont Circle NW: Robert W. Patterson House (arch.

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, 1902), now Ampeer Dupont Circle apartments * 11 Dupont Circle NW: office building (1974), home of the

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until 2001 * 1500 New Hampshire Ave NW: Dupont Circle Hotel (1950) * 1501 Connecticut Ave NW: commercial building (1923), now

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* 1913 Massachusetts Ave NW: Dupont Circle Branch of the

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(arch. George Nicholas Ray, 1923), now PNC * 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) * 2009 Massachusetts Ave NW: Hershell Main House, later

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house (built 1881, front rebuilt 1910), now the

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* 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.

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, 1885), now the Urban Alliance Foundation * 2027 Massachusetts Ave NW: House (1911), now the

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* 1600 21st Street NW: D. Clinch Phillips House (arch.

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, 1897), now the

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* 2107 Massachusetts Ave NW: T. Morris Murray House (1901), now Embassy of India * 2121 Massachusetts Ave NW: Richard T. Townsend House (arch.

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, 1901), now the

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* 2131 Massachusetts Ave NW: George W. Barrie House (arch. Marsh & Peter, 1905), now Embassy of Estonia * 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) * 2205 Massachusetts Ave NW: Anna Jenness-Miller House (arch.

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, 1920), now the

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* 2207 Massachusetts Ave NW: townhouse (arch. Louis D. Meline, 1902), now Embassy of Turkmenistan * 2209 Massachusetts Ave NW: townhouse (arch. Wyeth & Cresson, 1911), now Embassy of Paraguay * 2211 Massachusetts Ave NW: Irene Rucker Sheridan House (arch. Wood, Donn & 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:

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(arch. Hickok Cole, 2013) * 1600 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of the Philippines (1993) * 1700 Massachusetts Ave NW: Emily J. Wilkins House (arch.

, 1909), now Embassy of Peru * 1708 Massachusetts Ave NW: Henry C. Nevins House (arch. Harvey L. Page, 1891), now Embassy of Trinidad and Tobago * 1720 Massachusetts Ave NW: town house, now

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* 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:

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(1962) * 1746 Massachusetts Ave NW: Clarence Moore House (arch.

, 1909), now Embassy of Uzbekistan * 1750 Massachusetts Ave NW:

(arch. James von Klemperer for

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, 2001) * 1776 Massachusetts Ave NW: office building (1969) * 1780 Massachusetts Ave NW: Ingalls House (arch.

, 1912), now office of the President of the

* 1800 Massachusetts Ave NW: office building (1979), now the

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* 1369 Connecticut Ave NW: U.S. Trust Company building (arch.

, 1912), now

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branch * 1350 Connecticut Ave NW: Dupont Circle Building (arch.

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, 1931) * 21 Dupont Circle NW: Euram Building (arch. Hartman-Cox, 1972) * 1 Dupont Circle NW: office building (arch. Vlastimil Koubek, 1968), now the

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* 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 & Cohen LLP * 2012 Massachusetts Ave NW: Joseph Beale House (arch. Glenn Brown, 1897), now Embassy of Portugal * 2020 Massachusetts Ave NW:

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(arch. Henry Andersen, 1903), now Embassy of Indonesia * 2100 Massachusetts Ave NW: Fairfax Hotel (arch. B. Stanley Simmons, 1927) * 2118 Massachusetts Ave NW:

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(arch. Arthur Little & Herbert W. C. Browne, 1905), now

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* 2122 Massachusetts Ave NW: State House apartment building (arch. Matthew G. Lepley, 1951) * 2200 Massachusetts Ave NW: Alexander Stewart House (arch.

, 1909), now Embassy of Luxembourg * 2202 Massachusetts Ave NW: townhouse (1914), now office of the

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of the Embassy of Turkey * 2208 Massachusetts Ave NW: townhouse (arch. Louis D. Meline, 1900), now Embassy of Togo * 2210 Massachusetts Ave NW: townhouse (arch. Louis D. Meline, 1901), now Embassy of Sudan * 2212 Massachusetts Ave NW: townhouse (arch. Louis D. Meline, 1898) * 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. & Laussat Roger, 1903), now office of the Defense and Military Attaché of the Embassy of Greece * 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.

, 1907), now Embassy of Romania

From Sheridan Circle to Observatory Circle

North Side * 2223 Massachusetts Ave NW:

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(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:

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House (arch.

, 1904), now residence of the Ambassador of the Philippines * 2301 Massachusetts Ave NW:

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(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

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from 1952 to 1978, now Embassy of Haiti * 2315 Massachusetts Ave NW: Francis B. Moran House (arch. George Oakley Totten Jr., 1909), formerly embassy of Persia/

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(1935–43) then

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(1951–2011) * 2339 Massachusetts Ave NW: Wendell Mansions apartment building (arch.

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, 1906) * 2343 Massachusetts Ave NW: Former chancery of the embassy of Austria (arch. George Nicholas Ray, 1930), now Embassy of Croatia * 2349 Massachusetts Ave NW: Christian Hauge House (arch. George Oakley Totten Jr., 1906), later embassy of

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(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 * 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 & Nathan C. Wyeth, 1906), now Embassy of Zambia * 2433 Massachusetts Ave NW:

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House (arch.

, 1934), now Embassy of the Marshall Islands * 2443 Massachusetts Ave NW: Residence of the Ambassador of Venezuela (arch. Chester A. Patterson, 1939) * 2501 Massachusetts Ave NW: C.H. Harlow House (arch.

, 1916), later home of

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* 2511 Massachusetts Ave NW: house (1942), now Embassy of Lesotho * 2525 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of Turkey (arch.

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, 1999) * 2535 Massachusetts Ave NW: house (1953), now Embassy of Belize * 2551 Massachusetts Ave NW:

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(arch. Mario Rossi in association with Irwin S. Porter & Sons, 1957) * 2929 Massachusetts Ave NW: Maie H. Williams House (arch.

, 1918) * 3003 Massachusetts Ave NW: Alanson B. Houghton House (arch.

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, 1935), former residence of the Ambassador of Iran * 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:

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-USA Buddhist Center (arch.

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, 2008) * 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), now part of the Embassy of Latvia * 2306 Massachusetts Ave NW: Alice Pike Barney House (arch.

, 1902), now Embassy of Latvia * 2320 Massachusetts Ave NW: detached house (arch.

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, 1918), now Consular section of the Embassy of South Korea * 2324 Massachusetts Ave NW: town house (arch. Louis D. Meline, 1902), now annex of the Embassy of Greece * 2328 Massachusetts Ave NW: town house (arch.

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and Deming, 1922) * 2332-38 Massachusetts Ave NW: row of four townhouses (arch. Nicholas T. Haller, 1899) * 2340 Massachusetts Ave NW: townhouse (1914), now Embassy of Burkina Faso * 2344 Massachusetts Ave NW:

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House (arch.

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, 1907) * 2346 Massachusetts Ave NW:

George Cabot Lodge George Cabot "Bay" Lodge (October 10, 1873 – August 21, 1909) was an American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Early life Lodge was born in Boston on October 10, 1873, and grew up at his parents' home in Nahant, Massachusetts ...

House (arch. Wood, Donn & Deming, 1905) * 2360 Massachusetts Ave NW: townhouse (arch.

, 1911), now Embassy of Kyrgyzstan * 2370 Massachusetts Ave NW: Alice W.B. Stanley House (arch. Smith & Edwards, 1930), now Korean Cultural Center * 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 * 2408 Massachusetts Ave NW:

Granville Roland Fortescue Granville Roland Fortescue (October 12, 1875 – April 21, 1952) was an American soldier, a Rough Rider serving with his cousin, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in Cuba, a presidential aide in the first Roosevelt administration and later, a journalist ...

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 Charles Mason Remey (15 May 1874 – 4 February 1974) was a prominent member of the early American Baháʼí community, and served in several important administrative capacities. He is well-known for an attempted schism of 1960, in which he cla ...

House (arch. Smith & Edwards, c. 1930), now Permanent mission of Mexico to the OAS * 2450 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of South Korea (arch. Marani & Morris, Faulkner, Kingsbury and Stenhouse, 1953) * 2500 Massachusetts Ave NW: apartment house (arch. Louis E. Sholtes, 1922) * 2516 Massachusetts Ave NW: Old Ambassador's Residence of the Embassy of Japan (arch. Delano & 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) * 2558 Massachusetts Ave NW: Spanish Mission to the

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(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.

, 1928), now residence of the Ambassador of Brazil * 3006 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of Brazil (arch.

Olavo Redig de Campos Olavo Redig de Campos (1906–1984) was a Brazilian architect, important in the 20th century development of the Brazilian style of Modernist architecture. Redig de Campos was born in Rio de Janeiro, however, his father was a diplomat and he spe ...

, 1971) * 3014 Massachusetts Ave NW: house (1941), now Embassy of Bolivia * 3100 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of the United Kingdom (arch.

Edwin Lutyens Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens ( ; 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memorials ...

, 1931); chancery building (arch. Eric Bedford) added in the late 1950s. * 3450 Massachusetts Ave NW:

Statuary

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

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, including the successive Circles and several triangular parks created by the intersections between the diagonal avenue and the

L'Enfant Plan The L'Enfant Plan for the city of Washington, D.C. is the urban plan developed in 1791 by Major Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant for George Washington, the first president of the United States. It is regarded as a landmark in urban design and h ...

grid. A special case is the statue of Winston Churchill, which has one foot on the grounds of the

and the other on federal land to symbolize the UK-US alliance. *

Samuel Hahnemann Monument The Samuel Hahnemann Monument, also known as ''Dr. Samuel Hahnemann'', is a public artwork dedicated to Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy. It is located on the east side of Scott Circle, a traffic circle in the northwest quadrant of ...

on the eastern side of

, by

Charles Henry Niehaus Charles Henry Niehaus (January 24, 1855 – June 19, 1935) was an American sculptor. Early life and education Niehaus was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to German parents. He began working as a marble and wood carver, and then gained entrance to the ...

(1900) * Equestrian statue of Winfield Scott, by

Henry Kirke Brown Henry Kirke Brown (February 24, 1814 in Leyden, Massachusetts – July 10, 1886 in Newburgh, New York) was an American sculptor. Life He began to paint portraits while still a boy, studied painting in Boston under Chester Harding, learned a li ...

(1874) * the Daniel Webster Memorial, by

Gaetano Trentanove Gaetano Trentanove (February 21, 1858 – March 13, 1937) was an Italian and American sculptor. Biography Trentanove was born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, a goldsmith's son. He studied at the Florentine Academy; he was later named hono ...

(1900) * a modern bust of

Miguel Grau Miguel María Grau Seminario (27 July 1834 – 8 October 1879) was a Peruvian Navy officer and politician best known for his actions during the War of the Pacific. He was nicknamed "Gentleman of the Seas" for his kind and chivalrous treatment ...

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 The Dupont Circle Fountain, formally known as the Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Dupont Memorial Fountain, is a fountain located in the center of Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. It honors Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, a prominent American ...

, by

Daniel Chester French Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was an American sculpture, sculptor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works include ''The Minute Man'', an 1874 statue in Concord, Massachusetts, and his Statue of Abr ...

(1920) * a statue of Hindu goddess

Saraswati Saraswati (, ), also spelled as Sarasvati, is one of the principal Devi, goddesses in Hinduism, revered as the goddess of knowledge, education, learning, arts, speech, poetry, music, purification, language and culture. Together with the godde ...

by a

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nese sculpting team, on the grounds of the Indonesian Embassy, with a group of three children including a young

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in front (2013) * the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial by

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, in front of the Indian Embassy (2000) * a bronze cast of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon, in front of the

(2008). (This statue was moved away in June 2020.) * the statue of Tomas Masaryk, by

Vincenc Makovský Vincenc Makovský (3 June 1900 – 28 December 1966) was a Czechs, Czech sculptor, industrial designer and university teacher. Biography Vincenc Makovský was born on 3 June 1900 in Nové Město na Moravě. After he graduated from the high schoo ...

(1937, cast 1968, erected 2002) * a copy in reduced size of the 1969 bronze statue of

Eleftherios Venizelos Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos (, ; – 18 March 1936) was a Cretan State, Cretan Greeks, Greek statesman and prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movement. As the leader of the Liberal Party (Greece), Liberal Party, Venizelos ser ...

by Yannis Pappas, now in Freedom Park in Athens, erected in front of the Greek Embassy (2009) * the statue of

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman who was the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President of Turkey, president from 1923 until Death an ...

by Jeffery L. Hall, in front of the Turkish Ambassador's residence (2013) * Equestrian statue of Philip Sheridan, by

Gutzon Borglum John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (March 25, 1867 – March 6, 1941) was an American sculpture, sculptor best known for his work on Mount Rushmore. He is also associated with various other public works of art across the U.S., including Stone Moun ...

(1908) * the statue of Philip Jaisohn in front of the South Korean Consular Section, by Jae-kil Lee (2008) * a bust of

Orlando Letelier Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar (13 April 1932 – 21 September 1976) was a Chilean economist, politician, and diplomat during the presidency of Salvador Allende. A refugee from the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, Letelier ...

commemorating his

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, by Barry Woods Johnston, in front of the residence of the Ambassador of Chile (2018) * the statue of St Jerome by

Ivan Meštrović Ivan Meštrović (; 15 August 1883 – 16 January 1962) was a Croatian and Yugoslav sculptor, architect, and writer. He was the most prominent modern Croatian sculptor and a leading artistic personality in contemporary Zagreb. He studied at Pa ...

, 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 Jerome Connor (23 February 1874 in Coumduff, Annascaul, County Kerry – 21 August 1943 in Dublin) was an Irish sculptor. Life In 1888, he emigrated to Holyoke, Massachusetts. His father was a stonemason, which led to Connor's jobs in New York ...

(1916, relocated 1966) * an abstract sculpture by Dong-koo Yun in front of the Korean Embassy (2000) * another statue of

, this one cast in

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Ragıp Çiçen Ragıp or Ragip may refer to: * Ragıp Başdağ (born 1978), Turkish footballer * Ragıp Gümüşpala (1897–1964), Turkish military officer and politician * Ragip Jashari (1961–1999), Albanian politician * Ragıp Zarakolu (born 1948), Turki ...

, donated by

İbrahim Fırtına Halil İbrahim Fırtına (born 1941 in Ordu, Turkey) is a retired Turkish Air Force general and Commander of the Turkish Air Force. Fırtına retired in 2005. He was tried in the alleged "Sledgehammer" coup plan conspiracy by senior members of t ...

and standing inside the

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(2004) * the statue of Winston Churchill by William McVey, in front of the

(1966) * the statue of Nelson Mandela by Jean Doyle, in front of the South African Embassy (2013) * 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

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(2005)

Other embassies in Washington, D.C.

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 New or NEW may refer to: Music * New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz * ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013 ** "New" (Paul McCartney song), 2013 * ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator, 1995 * "New" (Daya song), 2017 * "New" (No Doubt song), 1 ...

NW north of

alone is home to the embassies of

Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

Botswana Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the sou ...

, the

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...

Eritrea Eritrea, officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa, with its capital and largest city being Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia in the Eritrea–Ethiopia border, south, Sudan in the west, and Dj ...

Eswatini Eswatini, formally the Kingdom of Eswatini, also known by its former official names Swaziland and the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by South Africa on all sides except the northeast, where i ...

Grenada Grenada is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea. The southernmost of the Windward Islands, Grenada is directly south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and about north of Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and the So ...

Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...

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Mozambique Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Afr ...

Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the no ...

Nicaragua Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest Sovereign state, country in Central America, comprising . With a population of 7,142,529 as of 2024, it is the third-most populous country in Central America aft ...

Rwanda Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by ...

, and

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. 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 Connecticut Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., and suburban Montgomery County, Maryland. It is one of the diagonal avenues radiating from the White House, and the segment south of Florida Avenue wa ...

, 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

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 Meridian Hill Park, also known as Malcolm X Park, is an urban park in Washington, D.C., located in the Meridian Hill neighborhood that straddles the border between Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights. The park measures and is bounded by 15th, 1 ...

. This area was specifically developed by local resident

Mary Foote Henderson Mary Foote Henderson (July 21, 1842 – July 16, 1931) was an American author, real estate developer, and social activist from the U.S. state of New York who was known as "The Empress of Sixteenth Street". Henderson was a notable advocate of wom ...

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

, 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

, 1927; now the Spain-USA Foundation); Egypt (arch. George Oakley Totten Jr., 1924, now Meridian Hall); Italy (arch.

Warren and Wetmore Warren and Wetmore was an architecture firm based in New York City, a partnership established about 1889 by Whitney Warren (1864–1943) and Charles D. Wetmore (1866–1941). They had one of the most extensive practices of their time, and were e ...

, 1925, currently under redevelopment); and Brazil (arch. George Oakley Totten Jr., 1927, later embassy of Hungary and now the

Josephine Butler Parks Center Josephine Butler Parks Center is a historic building in Washington, D.C. and the headquarters of Washington Parks and People, located in the Meridian Hill neighborhood of Northwest D.C. It is housed in the Old Hungarian Embassy, which is listed ...

). The embassies of

Cuba Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...

(arch. Macneil & Macneil, 1918),

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

(arch. George Oakley Totten Jr., 1909), and

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

(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 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical sc ...

Cleveland Park Cleveland Park is a residential neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. It is located at and bounded approximately by Rock Creek Park to the east, Wisconsin and Idaho Avenues to the west, Klingle and Woodley Roads to the sou ...

, was developed from 1968 as the International Chancery Center. It is home to the embassies of

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

Bahrain Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in West Asia. Situated on the Persian Gulf, it comprises a small archipelago of 50 natural islands and an additional 33 artificial islands, centered on Bahrain Island, which mak ...

Bangladesh Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world and among the List of countries and dependencies by ...

Brunei Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo. Apart from its coastline on the South China Sea, it is completely surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak, with ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...

Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...

Kuwait Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia and the geopolitical region known as the Middle East. It is situated in the northern edge of the Arabian Peninsula at the head of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to Iraq–Kuwait ...

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

Monaco Monaco, officially the Principality of Monaco, is a Sovereign state, sovereign city-state and European microstates, microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Regions of Italy, Italian region of Liguria, in Western Europe, ...

Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...

Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

Slovakia Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m ...

, and the

United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is a Federal monarchy, federal elective monarchy made up of Emirates of the United Arab E ...

. A number of other embassies are scattered south of Massachusetts Avenue and closer to the

National Mall The National Mall is a Landscape architecture, landscaped park near the Downtown, Washington, D.C., downtown area of Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States. It contains and borders a number of museums of the Smithsonian Institu ...

, notably those of

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ...

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about , making it the List of Asian countries ...

, and the

. Still others are located in or around Georgetown, such as those of

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

, and

Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...

. The Caribbean Chancery on 3216 New Mexico Avenue NW hosts the embassies of four English-speaking Caribbean nations.

References

External links

United States Department of the Treasury: List of addresses of foreign embassies and consulates in the U.S.
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History

From Scott Circle to Sheridan Circle

From Sheridan Circle to Observatory Circle

Statuary

Other embassies in Washington, D.C.

See also

References

External links