Congressional Club
- Architect
- George Oakley Totten, Jr.
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Washington, DC
- Collection
- the city beautiful
Built in 1917 to designs by George Oakley Totten Jr., the Congressional Club at 2001 New Hampshire Avenue NW is the clubhouse of the official club of congressional spouses, created by an 1908 act of the Sixtieth Congress — the only club in the world incorporated by Congress. Since 1912 it has hosted an annual luncheon honoring the First Lady, its largest event of the year.
the building
Henderson's hand. Social activist and real estate developer Mary Foote Henderson, who was reshaping 16th Street around her own mansion, Henderson Castle, played a large role in siting and designing the clubhouse.
the style
Totten designed the clubhouse in the Beaux-Arts idiom, giving the congressional spouses' club a formal, neoclassical civic presence in keeping with its unusual congressional charter.
More on Beaux-Artssignificance
The building is a contributing property to the Sixteenth Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and was individually listed on the Register in 2011.
nearby
- Mary Ann Shadd Cary House
- Meridian Hall
- Josephine Butler Parks Center
- Pink Palace
- Warder Mansion
- Clifton Terrace