The Townsend House is a historic building on Embassy Row in Washington DC home to the Cosmos Club since 1952. The free-standing house set in almost an acre of garden was designed in the Beaux Arts French style by architects Carrere and Hastings in 1898 for Richard T. Townsend and his wife Mary Scott Townsend and essentially completed in 1901. Mr. Townsend died shortly thereafter in 1902. Following the death of Mrs. Townsend in 1931 their daughter Matilde who was by then Mrs. B. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Building