Dupont Circle
Dupont Circle
Dupont Circle is a traffic circle, park, neighborhood, and historic district in Northwest Washington, D.C. The traffic circle is located at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue NW, Connecticut Avenue NW, New Hampshire Avenue NW, P Street NW, and 19th Street NW. The Dupont Circle neighborhood is bounded approximately by 16th Street NW to the east, 22nd Street NW to the west, M Street NW to the south, and Florida Avenue NW to the north. The local government Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC 2B) and the Dupont Circle Historic District have slightly different boundaries.
Dupont Circle is served by the Washington Metro Red Line at the Dupont Circle
Metro station. There are two entrances: north of the circle at Q Street NW and
south of the circle at 19th Street NW.
Dupont Circle is located in the "Old City" of Washington, D.C. — the area
planned by architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant — but remained largely undeveloped
until after the American Civil War, when there was a large influx of new
residents. The area that now constitutes Dupont Circle was once home to a
brickyard and slaughterhouse. There also was a creek, Slash Run, that ran from
16th Street near Adams Morgan, through Kalorama and within a block of Dupont
Circle, but the creek has since been enclosed in a sewer line. Improvements made
in the 1870s by a board of public works headed by Alexander "Boss" Shepherd
transformed the area into a fashionable residential neighborhood.
The area's rowhouses, primarily built before 1900, feature variations on the Queen Anne and Richardsonian Romanesque revival styles. Rarer are the palatial mansions and large freestanding houses that line the broad, tree-lined diagonal avenues that intersect the circle. Many of these larger dwellings were built in the styles popular between 1895 and 1910.
One such grand residence is the marble and terra cotta Patterson house at 15
Dupont Circle (currently the Washington Club). This Italianate mansion, the only
survivor of the many mansions that once ringed the circle, was built in 1901 by
New York architect Stanford White for Robert Patterson, editor of the Chicago
Tribune, and his wife Nellie, heiress to the Chicago Tribune fortune. Upon Mrs
Patterson's incapacitation in the early 1920s, the house passed into the hands
of her daughter, Cissy Patterson, who made it a hub of Washington social life.
The house served as temporary quarters for President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge in
1927 while the White House underwent renovation. The Coolidges welcomed Charles
Lindbergh as a houseguest after his historic transatlantic flight. Lindbergh
made several public appearances at the house, waving to roaring crowds from the
second-story balcony, and befriended the Patterson Family, with whom he
increasingly came to share isolationist and pro-German views. Cissy Patterson
later acquired the Washington Times-Herald (sold to Washington Post in 1954) and
declared journalistic warfare on Franklin D. Roosevelt from 15 Dupont Circle,
continuing throughout World War II to push her policies, which were echoed in
the New York Daily News, run by her brother Joseph Medill Patterson, and the
Chicago Tribune, run by their first cousin, Colonel Robert R. McCormick.
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Anderson House
Larz Anderson House, located at 2118 Massachusetts Avenue, NW in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., houses the Cincinnatus Society's national headquarters, historic house museum, and research library. It is located on the Embassy Row section, near international embassies.
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (519 BC – 430 BC) was a Roman aristocrat and statesman whose service as consul in 460 BC and dictator in 458 BC and 439 BC made him a model of civic virtue.
Cincinnatus was regarded by the Romans, especially the aristocratic patrician class, as one of the heroes of early Rome and as a model of Roman virtue and simplicity. He was a persistent opponent of the plebeians. When his son was convicted and condemned to death, Cincinnatus was forced to live in humble circumstances, working on his own small farm, until an invasion caused him to be called to serve Rome as dictator, an office which he immediately resigned after completing his task of defeating the rivaling tribes of the Aequians, Sabines, and Volscians. He lived approximately around the time that Lucius Junius Brutus did.
Cosmos Club
The Cosmos Club is a private social club in Washington, D.C., founded by John Wesley Powell in 1878. In addition to Powell, original members included Clarence Edward Dutton, Henry Smith Pritchett, William Harkness, and John Shaw Billings. Among its stated goals is "The advancement of its members in science, literature, and art". Cosmos Club members have included many recipients of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Since 1952 the Club's headquarters have been in the Mary Scott (Mrs Richard T.)
Townsend house, at 2121 Massachusetts Avenue NW in the Dupont Circle
neighborhood. The free-standing house, set in almost an acre of garden, was
designed in the Beaux Arts French style by architects Carrère and Hastings in
1898 and essentially completed in 1901
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The Washington Legal Foundation
headquarters located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
The building previously had served as the residence of Alice Roosevelt
Longworth for over 70 years.
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