About Townsend House
Townsend House is a historic building on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C., that has housed the Cosmos Club since 1952. Designed by the architects Carrère and Hastings in the French Beaux-Arts style, the freestanding house was built around 1900 for Mary Scott Townsend and her husband. It sits on a large garden property and briefly hosted, among others, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt before his inauguration. After the death of its last resident, the Cosmos Club acquired the estate. Today the house is listed as a historic landmark and contributes to the character of the surrounding historic districts.
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- 2121 Massachusetts Ave NW
20008 Washington, USA - District
- Dupont Circle
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- 38.91154° N · -77.04760° E
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Almost completed rebuilt by heiress Mary Scott Townsend in 1899, the house features a Beaux Arts, Louis XVI French-inspired design. Townsend lived there until she died in 1931. For a period of time before World War II, Sumner Welles, the son-in-law of Mary Scott Townsend and Franklin D. Roosevelt's Under Secretary of State, lived in the Townsend Mansion. The Cosmos Club, a private social club, bought the house in 1950, and continues to occupy the mansion.
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