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Brodhead-Bell-Morton Mansion: This Beaux-Arts mansion was once owned by a vice president and is now the Embassy of Hungary.
The Brodhead-Bell-Morton mansion just northeast of Scott Circle is architecturally significant for its grand Beaux-Arts style. It speaks to a time — the turn of the 20th century — when Massachusetts…
Martha Tucker House & George Hewitt Myers House (Former Textile Museum): The Textile Museum relocated to The George Washington University campus in 2015, and these houses are once again private residences.
This lot in Kalorama was vacant until 1908, when Martha S. Tucker built her house at 2320 S Street NW, designed by Wood, Donn and Deming. The firm, founded in 1902, designed a number of important…
Scottish Rite Temple: This monumental building was modeled on the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
Built in 1915, the House of the Temple is the headquarters of the Supreme Council of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Thirty-Third Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Rite of Freemasonry. One of the…
National City Christian Church: Built in 1930, this neoclassical church is a notable landmark of Thomas Circle.
The congregation of the National City Christian Church organized in 1843. A physician and pioneering Stone-Campbell Movement missionary, James Turner Barclay (1807-1874) helped to organize the…
National Archives Building: The National Archives serves as the repository of the most valuable and rare paper documents of the United States, such as the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.
Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, US government agencies and branches were responsible for maintaining their own documents, often resulting in the loss and destruction of…