2118 Massachusetts Ave NW
Washington, DC 20008, USA

Larz Anderson House (House Histree)

Completed in 1905, for Larz Anderson (1866-1937) and his wife Isabel Weld Perkins (1876-1938). Serving as their winter home, it was designed by Little & Browne of Boston who were commissioned in the same year to build Henry Clay Frick's summer colossus, Eagle Rock. The Andersons died without children in 1937 and Isabel willed the house and its contents to the Society of the Cincinnati (of which her husband had been a member for over 40-years) that opened it as a museum from 1939. It remains open to the public today as the Society's headquarters, museum, and library...

Larz Anderson House, 2118 Massachusetts Ave NorthweSt Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Originally a private residence commissioned for lavish entertaining, this limestone, detached structure is one of the largest and costliest homes in the city. The dissimilar facades of the north entrance with its court and the south garden elevation are attributable to the English manner during the first half of the 18th century. in addition, each major interior space is designed as a stylistic entity.