Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 72001434 Phone +1 202-462-5800 Added to NRHP 5 December 1972 | Built 1900 Opened 1900 Architectural style Beaux-Arts architecture | |
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Location 1801 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. Address 1801 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA Similar Metropolitan Club, Washington Club, Sulgrave Manor, Georgetown Park, Christ Church | ||
The Sulgrave Club is a private club located at 1801 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., on Embassy Row in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington D.C., United States.
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Wadsworth House
Built in 1900 for Herbert and Martha Blow Wadsworth as a winter residence, the building was completed under the name of Wadsworth House. Herbert Wadsworth was the grandson of James Wadsworth (of Geneseo). Martha Blow Wadsworth was from St. Louis, Missouri and a descendant of Henry Taylor Blow. In 1918 the Wadsworths donated the mansion to the Red Cross, who sold it to Mabel Thorp Boardman and a group of women in 1932, for $125,000. The women renamed it the Sulgrave Club, a club intended for music, art and social gatherings. The new club's name came from Sulgrave, the civil parish in Northamptonshire, England that had been the ancestral family home of George Washington.
Architecture
The Sulgrave Club was designed by Frederick H. Brooke in a Beaux-Arts design from the 18th century. It is one of Washington’s first mansions to follow this style of architecture. The house was built of yellow Roman brick and cream terra cotta.