The Washington herald., 1922-10-14
ATOMS CAPITAL
FAMOUS AS CITY
OF RESIDENCES
plendor Of Architecture,
Public and Private, Is
Unsurpassed.
lR A W s NOTABLEs
lstinguished Persons Seek
It's Environs and As
VII sociations.

A visitor to washington driving
pound the city and It's suburbs
sses smor. handsome residences
Northumberland persons than in
" other city IN the world.
Washington has homes famous
roughout the country for their
stinctiveness and splendor Of ar
hitectturs. in addition to scores
places made famous as the resi-
ences Of great men and women who
bee occupied them The White
ouse 10 the most famous. The for
gn embassies and legations form
notable group. The homes OF
any Unitsd States Senators who
bnsider their political lives fairly
ecure or who would maintain Q
esidence In Washington anyway.
hso make q distinguished contri-
iution to the attractiveness Of the
hty.
Another famous residence is 'the
astle" of Mrs. Mary Ford Hender-
on, widow of the lats Senator John
3 Henderson. of Missouri. 1t caps
Diplomatic HILL on upper Sixteenth
|tTSst. which is the Avenue OF the
i kbassies-" The embassies and le-
bstions of France, Spain, Poland,
Ssthsrlands- Switzerland, Mexico
Nd Cuba are in a group. which also
hcludes the handsome mansions of
a ka- A. a.
France. and Senator Key Pittman.
~ Nevada, not to mention the pink
PALACE" of Mrs. Marshall Field. Mrs.
Henderson was the one who had the
fision and courage which trans
|ormed this former slum section of
he city into one Of the show places
bf the world.
There is a graciouness OF broad
|awns. ancient trees, settled dignity
bnd fine tradition about such a
humber of Washington homes as to
bet the residential sections of the
fity in a class apart from all other
large cities. The home of Comdr
Hayne Ellis, at 5000 Woodley road
for example, is 122 years old. II
has housed three Presidents and oc-
cupies one of the sites originally
chosen for the Capitol. Twin Oaks
the home OF Charles ]. Bell, presi-
dent of the American Security and
Trust Company. at 1921 Connecticut
avenue. is another noted old man.
sion. The home of Henry Edward
Peilew. Viscount Exmouth, at 1887
avenue northwest,
deserves special mention because he
refused to leave II in order to &C
= England and take possession of
The title and the 3.000-acre estate
be recently inherited
y thousands of persons have made
The pilgrimage to the home of for
mer President Woodrow Wilson. at
s34O street. formerly the Henry
Il. Fairbanks residence. The house
at 1870 X street northwest, is cele-
brated because Frances HOdgsor
wrote Little Lord Fauntle-
royIi there. At the Bulwer House
On'ifH street near Vermont avenue
owen Meredith, after
wards Lord Bulwer Lytton, wrote
his famous poem, Lucille" while he
was an attache Of the British En-
bassy. The Decatur House, on Jack
son place. was occupied at differ
ent time by Henry clay ard Martin
Van, Buren,. as we'll as by Com
rnodore stephen Decatur. the hero
Df Tripoli. The homes Of Thomas
Nelson Page, author and diplomat
Perry Belmont and Mrs. PhllandeI
e. Knox, widow Of the late Secre-
tary Of State and Senator from
also are among the
,how places of the National Capital
Among the Cabinet officers. the
,omeS OF Charles Evan Hughes. Sec
retary Of State. at 1929 Eighteenth
5treet, and Herbert G. Hoover, Sec
rotary Of Commerce. at $500 S street,
a a.silperhaps the best known.-Th'
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