Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Townsend House is a historic building on Embassy Row in Washington DC, home to the Cosmos Club since 1952. The free-standing house, set in almost an acre of garden, was designed in the Beaux Arts French style by architects Carrère and Hastings in 1898 for Richard T. Townsend and his wife, Mary Scott Townsend, and essentially completed in 1901. Mr. Townsend died shortly thereafter, in 1902. Following the death of Mrs. Townsend, in 1931, their daughter Matilde, who was by then Mrs. B. Sumner Welles, moved into the house, living there until World War II. It was purchased from Mrs. Welles' estate by the Cosmos Club in 1950 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is a contributing property to the Dupont Circle Historic District and Massachusetts Avenue Historic District.. }
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- Townsend_House_(Washington_DC) abstract "The Townsend House is a historic building on Embassy Row in Washington DC, home to the Cosmos Club since 1952. The free-standing house, set in almost an acre of garden, was designed in the Beaux Arts French style by architects Carrère and Hastings in 1898 for Richard T. Townsend and his wife, Mary Scott Townsend, and essentially completed in 1901. Mr. Townsend died shortly thereafter, in 1902. Following the death of Mrs. Townsend, in 1931, their daughter Matilde, who was by then Mrs. B. Sumner Welles, moved into the house, living there until World War II. It was purchased from Mrs. Welles' estate by the Cosmos Club in 1950 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is a contributing property to the Dupont Circle Historic District and Massachusetts Avenue Historic District.".