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As Diplomacy Changes, So Must Its Architecture
Along a prime stretch of Nebraska Avenue in American University Heights on a 4.5-acre plot sits the Spanish colonial that, since 1950, has been the Swedish ambassador's residence. This year, it'll be put up for sale.
When guests couldn't come inside during lockdowns, the Spain Culture team turned the building, and its grounds, into exhibits themselves.
A bold act of espionage determined the Czech embassy should be moved off Embassy Row and "into the forest."
The Embassy of Tunisia is in a building that was once a science experiment.
Built by returning diplomats in a neighborhood envisioned as an international enclave, Meridian International Center sits on one of Washington's most historic lines.
The history of the Embassy of Indonesia, and the ghost who resides there, includes a Great Dane named Mike, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, and an absolute doozy of a diamond.
In the study of the Monégasque Ambassador's residence, a newspaper publisher turned senator wrote steamy love letters to his mistresses, and drafted his inaugural address when he was sworn in as president in 1921.
Mementos of the convention that birthed the United Nations are etched into the fabric of San Francisco, and in one of its most beautiful buildings.
The Algerian Ambassador's residence briefly served as an interim White House, and helped end segregation in one of D.C.'s poshest neighborhoods.
Canada's continually-evolving embassy is the only diplomatic property on America's inaugural parade route.
The Embassy of Ukraine, housed in one of Washington's most historic buildings, serves as a gathering place for supporters of peace.
Built in 1906 to resemble the Château de Balleroy in Normandy, the Colombian Ambassador's residence has been whimsically described as "varied."
The Swiss Ambassador's residence sits on a site George Washington once thought might house the US Capitol.
The only embassy with an Observatory Circle address, the Embassy of New Zealand's history is closely entertwined with that of its British neighbor.
The bold home at 1746 Massachusetts has, by turns, been both a monument to the modern and a shrine to the antiquated, a home to a newly-emerging country, and to an ancient civilization.
High on Massachusetts Avenue across from the U.S. Naval Observatory, the Embassy of Finland harbors a secret.
Nearly a century before the building at 2306 Massachusetts Avenue became the Embassy of Latvia, it served as the place where culture and art exploded in Washington.
Once the Embassy of Benin, a now empty plot of land has a contentious history.
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