Beale, Joseph House (Egyptian Embassy)

Architect: Glenn Brown
Style: Romanesque Revival
City: Washington, DC
Collection: romanesque revival

The Joseph Beale House at 2301 Massachusetts Avenue NW was built between 1907 and 1909 by Washington architect Glenn Brown for Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Beale, one of several Massachusetts Avenue houses Brown designed along Embassy Row. In November 1928, owner Margaret K.C. Brown sold the house to the government of Egypt for $150,000, and it has served as the official residence of the Egyptian ambassador to the United States ever since.

the style

Brown designed the house in the Romanesque Revival mode, one of the idioms he used along Massachusetts Avenue as the street filled with grand residences in the early 1900s.

the architect

Glenn Brown was a Washington architect who designed several houses along Massachusetts Avenue in the early twentieth century; the Beale House was among them.

significance

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 8, 1973, and it remains in continuous diplomatic use as the residence of Egypt's ambassador, nearly a century after the 1928 sale.

nearby

Emma S. Fitzhugh House 80 ft · Spanish Colonial Revival · 1904
Barney Studio House (and Interiors) 390 ft · Spanish Colonial Revival
Wilson, Woodrow House 400 ft · Georgian
Charles Evans Hughes House 470 ft · Spanish Colonial Revival
Dumbarton Bridge 0.1 mi · Romanesque Revival · 1915
Codman-Davis House 0.2 mi · Neoclassical

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