Embassy of Mexico-MacVeagh House

Architect: Nathan C. Wyeth
Style: Beaux-Arts
City: Washington, DC
Collection: the city beautiful

The Embassy of Mexico occupies the MacVeagh House, a Beaux-Arts mansion in Dupont Circle designed by architect Nathan C. Wyeth. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, its formal stone facade a holdover from the neighborhood's Gilded Age mansion era, now serving Mexico's diplomatic mission.

the style

Wyeth designed the house in the Beaux-Arts manner, giving it the symmetrical massing and classical stone detailing typical of Dupont Circle's Gilded Age mansions, before it became a diplomatic property.

significance

The MacVeagh House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

nearby

Warder Mansion 0.1 mi
Pink Palace 0.2 mi · 1906
Josephine Butler Parks Center 0.2 mi · Renaissance Revival
Meridian Hall 0.3 mi · Tudor Revival
Kelsey Temple Church of God in Christ 0.4 mi · Neoclassical
Clifton Terrace 0.4 mi · Colonial Revival · 1915

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