Embassy Row
Embassy Row is the informal name for a section of
Of the 177 diplomatic missions in the city, the majority are located on or near Embassy Row, including those of Italy, Australia, India, Greece, Egypt, Ireland, Japan, and the United Kingdom.[1] Due to the large number of well-preserved Gilded Age estates and townhouses, many of which house diplomatic missions or dignitaries, Embassy Row has been protected as part of the Massachusetts Avenue Historic District. Its historic and multicultural character has also made the area a center of tourism and local cultural life.[citation needed]
History
Considered Washington's premier residential address in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Massachusetts Avenue became known for its numerous mansions housing the city's social and political elites. Consequently, the segment between
The
On the southeastern section of the row, between Scott Circle and
Many of Embassy Row's diplomatic buildings open to the public once a year in May, an initiative nicknamed Passport DC. This event was started in 2007 by the embassies of member states of the European Union, and extended in 2008 to other countries around the world under coordination by Cultural Tourism DC.[4] Within this program, the EU embassies still open on a separate day, labelled EU Open House. A separate program, the Embassy Series, started in 1994 and coordinates concerts organized in the embassy buildings.[5]
Embassy Row is protected as the
From Scott Circle to Sheridan Circle
This section of Massachusetts Avenue was the one known as the "Millionaires' Row" of Washington, D.C., in the late 19th and early 20th century.
North Side
- 1499 Massachusetts Ave NW: Post Massachusetts Avenue apartment building (arch. Esocoff & Associates, 2002)
- 1515 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of Tunisia
- 1500 Rhode Island Ave NW: Embassy of Hungary (arch. John Fraser, 1879; remodeled by John Russell Pope, 1912)
- 1 Scott Circle NW: General Scott Apartments (arch. Robert O. Sholz, 1942)[8]
- 1601 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of Australia (arch. Bates, Smart & McCutcheon, 1965)
- 1617 Massachusetts Ave NW: Daniel C. Stapleton House (arch. Clarke Waggaman, 1917), now annex of the Embassy of the Philippines
- 1619 Massachusetts Ave NW: Forest Industries building (arch. Keyes, Lesbridge & Condon, 1961), now Benjamin T. Rome Building of Johns Hopkins University
- 1625 Massachusetts Ave NW: Airline Pilots Association building (arch. Vlastimil Koubek, 1972), now also Washington campus of Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
- 1701 Massachusetts Ave NW: The Bay State apartment building (arch. Robert O. Sholz, 1939)[9]
- 1711 Massachusetts Ave NW: Boston House apartment building (arch. Berla & Abel, 1950)[10]
- 1717 Massachusetts Ave NW: Bernstein-German Democratic Republic (arch. Cooper & Auerback, 1964)[11]
- 1727 Massachusetts Ave NW: The Winthrop apartment building (arch. Alvin L. Aubinoe, 1940)[12]
- 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW: Faulkner, Kingsbury & Stenhouse, 1960)
- 1779 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of Papua New Guinea
- 1789 Massachusetts Ave NW (numbered 1785 until 2016): McCormick Apartments (arch. Jules Henri de Sibour, 1917), now American Enterprise Institute
- 1801 Massachusetts Ave NW: Herbert Wadsworth House (arch. George Cary, 1902), now the Sulgrave Club
- 15 Dupont Circle NW: Robert W. Patterson House (arch. Stanford White, 1902), now Ampeer Dupont Circle apartments
- 11 Dupont Circle NW: office building (1974), home of the Peterson Institute for International Economics until 2001
- 1500 New Hampshire Ave NW: Dupont Circle Hotel (1950)
- 1501 Connecticut Ave NW: commercial building (1923), now Starbucks Coffee
- 1913 Massachusetts Ave NW: Dupont Circle Branch of the Riggs National Bank (arch. George Nicholas Ray, 1923), now PNC[13]
- 2001 Massachusetts Ave NW: apartment house (arch. Gertrude Sawyer, 1935), now Kossuth House of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America (1935)
- 2007 Massachusetts Ave NW: Horace A. Taylor House (arch. George Oakley Totten Jr., 1901)[14]
- 2009 Massachusetts Ave NW: Hershell Main House, later Alice Roosevelt Longworth house (built 1881, front rebuilt 1910), now the Washington Legal Foundation
- 2015 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy Row Hotel, rebranded The Ven Embassy Row in late 2020 (arch. Fischer and Elmore, 1971)
- 2025 Massachusetts Ave NW: Samuel M. Bryan House (arch. W. Bruce Gray, 1885), now the Urban Alliance Foundation
- 2027 Massachusetts Ave NW: House (1911), now the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism[15]
- 1600 21st Street NW: D. Clinch Phillips House (arch. Phillips Collection
- 2107 Massachusetts Ave NW: T. Morris Murray House (1901), now Embassy of India
- 2121 Massachusetts Ave NW: Richard T. Townsend House (arch. Carrère and Hastings, 1901), now the Cosmos Club
- 2131 Massachusetts Ave NW: George W. Barrie House (arch. Marsh & Peter, 1905), now Embassy of Estonia[3]
- 2201 Massachusetts Ave NW: Frederick A. Miller House (arch. Paul J. Pelz, 1901)
- 2203 Massachusetts Ave NW: Emeline D. Lovett House (arch. Alexander Millar, 1890)[3]
- 2205 Massachusetts Ave NW: Anna Jenness-Miller House (arch. Waddy Wood, 1920), now the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists[3]
- 2207 Massachusetts Ave NW: townhouse (arch. Embassy of Turkmenistan[3]
- 2209 Massachusetts Ave NW: townhouse (arch. Embassy of Paraguay
- 2211 Massachusetts Ave NW: Irene Rucker Sheridan House (arch. Wood, Donn & Deming, 1904)
- 2217 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of Greece (arch. Angelos Demetriou, 2006)
- 2221 Massachusetts Ave NW: Hennen Jennings House (arch. Ambassador of Greece
South Side
- 1500 Massachusetts Ave NW: 1500 Massachusetts apartment building (1952)
- 1616 Rhode Island Ave NW: Center for Strategic and International Studies (arch. Hickok Cole, 2013)
- 1600 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of the Philippines (1993)
- 1700 Massachusetts Ave NW: Emily J. Wilkins House (arch. Embassy of Peru
- 1708 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of Trinidad and Tobago
- 1720 Massachusetts Ave NW: town house, now Stephanie Tubbs Jones building of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
- 1724 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of Colombia (1981)
- 1732 Massachusetts Ave NW: J.C. McGuire House (arch. Embassy of Chile
- 1736 Massachusetts Ave NW: now Consular section of the Embassy of Chile
- 1740 Massachusetts Ave NW: Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (1962)
- 1746 Massachusetts Ave NW: Clarence Moore House (arch. Jules Henri de Sibour, 1909), now Embassy of Uzbekistan
- 1750 Massachusetts Ave NW: Peterson Institute for International Economics (arch. James von Klemperer for Kohn Pedersen Fox, 2001)
- 1776 Massachusetts Ave NW: office building (1969)
- 1780 Massachusetts Ave NW: Ingalls House (arch. Jules Henri de Sibour, 1912), now office of the President of the Brookings Institution
- 1800 Massachusetts Ave NW: office building (1979), now the Service Employees International Union
- 1369 Connecticut Ave NW:
- 1350 Connecticut Ave NW: Dupont Circle Building (arch. Mihran Mesrobian, 1931)
- 21 Dupont Circle NW: Euram Building (arch. Hartman-Cox, 1972)[19]
- 1 Dupont Circle NW: office building (arch. Vlastimil Koubek, 1968), now the American Council on Education
- 2000 P Street NW: The Toronto apartment building (arch. Albert H. Beers, 1908)
- 2000 Massachusetts Ave NW: James G. Blaine Mansion (arch. George Fraser, 1881), now Phillips & Cohen LLP
- 2012 Massachusetts Ave NW: Joseph Beale House (arch. Embassy of Portugal
- 2020 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of Indonesia
- 2100 Massachusetts Ave NW: Fairfax Hotel (arch. B. Stanley Simmons, 1927)
- 2118 Massachusetts Ave NW: Larz Anderson House (arch. Arthur Little & Herbert W. C. Browne, 1905), now Society of the Cincinnati
- 2122 Massachusetts Ave NW: State House apartment building (arch. Matthew G. Lepley, 1951)[20]
- 2200 Massachusetts Ave NW: Alexander Stewart House (arch. Jules Henri de Sibour, 1909), now Embassy of Luxembourg[3]
- 2202 Massachusetts Ave NW: townhouse (1914), now office of the Embassy of Turkey
- 2208 Massachusetts Ave NW: townhouse (arch. Embassy of Togo
- 2210 Massachusetts Ave NW: townhouse (arch. Embassy of Sudan
- 2212 Massachusetts Ave NW: townhouse (arch. Louis D. Meline, 1898)[3]
- 2214-16 Massachusetts Ave NW: twin townhouses (arch. George Nicholas Ray, 1931)
- 2220 Massachusetts Ave NW: townhouse (arch. Embassy of the Bahamas
- 2228 Massachusetts Ave NW: townhouse (arch. Embassy of Greece[21]
- 2230 Massachusetts Ave NW: James C. Hooe House (arch. George Oakley Totten Jr., 1907)
- 2232 Massachusetts Ave NW: townhouse (1900), now Economic and Commercial Bureau of the Embassy of Egypt
- 2234 Massachusetts Ave NW: Henrietta M. Halliday House (arch. Embassy of Ireland
- 1607 23rd St NW: Frank Ellis House (arch. Embassy of Romania
From Sheridan Circle to Observatory Circle
North Side
- 2223 Massachusetts Ave NW: American Society of International Law (arch. George Oakley Totten Jr., 1907)
- 2225 R St NW: Embassy of Armenia
- 2249 R St NW: C. Peyton Russell House (arch. Embassy of Kenya
- 2251 R St NW: Ambassador of Vietnam
- 2253 R St NW: Charles L. Fitzhugh House (arch. Waddy Wood, 1904), now residence of the Ambassador of the Philippines
- 2301 Massachusetts Ave NW: Ambassador of Egypt
- 2305 Massachusetts Ave NW: Sarah S. Wyeth House (arch. Ambassador of Chile
- 2311 Massachusetts Ave NW: Gibson Fahnestock House (arch. Embassy of Haiti
- 2315 Massachusetts Ave NW: Francis B. Moran House (arch. George Oakley Totten Jr., 1909), formerly embassy of Persia/Iran (1935–43) then embassy of Pakistan (1951–2011)
- 2339 Massachusetts Ave NW: Wendell Mansions apartment building (arch. Edward Hughes Glidden, 1906)
- 2343 Massachusetts Ave NW: Former chancery of the embassy of Austria (arch. George Nicholas Ray, 1930), now Embassy of Croatia[23]
- 2349 Massachusetts Ave NW: Christian Hauge House (arch. George Oakley Totten Jr., 1906), later embassy of Czechoslovakia (1929–72) and now Embassy of Cameroon
- 2347 S Street NW: Owsley House (arch. Ward Brown, 1929), now residence of the Ambassador of the Netherlands[3]
- 2401 Massachusetts Ave NW: Former chancery of the Embassy of Malaysia (1969), now Embassy of Chad
- 2419 Massachusetts Ave NW: Louis Arthur Coolidge House (arch. William Penn Cresson & Nathan C. Wyeth, 1906), now Embassy of Zambia
- 2433 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of the Marshall Islands[24]
- 2443 Massachusetts Ave NW: Residence of the Ambassador of Venezuela (arch. Chester A. Patterson, 1939)
- 2501 Massachusetts Ave NW: C.H. Harlow House (arch. Waddy Wood, 1916), later home of Robert A. Taft[25]
- 2511 Massachusetts Ave NW: house (1942), now Embassy of Lesotho
- 2525 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of Turkey (arch. Shalom Baranes Associates, 1999)
- 2535 Massachusetts Ave NW: house (1953), now Embassy of Belize
- 2551 Massachusetts Ave NW: Islamic Center of Washington (arch. Mario Rossi in association with Irwin S. Porter & Sons, 1957)
- 2929 Massachusetts Ave NW: Maie H. Williams House (arch. Clarke Waggaman, 1918)[26]
- 3003 Massachusetts Ave NW: Ambassador of Iran[27]
- 3005 Massachusetts Ave NW: former Embassy of Iran(1959)
- 3051 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of South Africa (1936, expanded 1964)
- 3301 Massachusetts Ave NW: Markku Komonen, 1994)
- 3339 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of the Holy See (arch. Frederick V. Murphy, 1938)
- 3401 Massachusetts Ave NW: Residence of the Ambassador of Norway (arch. John J. Whelan, 1931)
- 3415 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of Timor-Leste
- 3417 Massachusetts Ave NW: William Hellmuth, 2008)[28]
- 3421 Massachusetts Ave NW: house (1927), now Embassy of Iraq
South Side
- 1606 23rd St NW: Edward H. Everett House (arch. Ambassador of Turkey
- 2304 Massachusetts Ave NW: house (arch. Louis D. Meline, 1901),[16] now part of the Embassy of Latvia
- 2306 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of Latvia
- 2320 Massachusetts Ave NW: detached house (arch. Embassy of South Korea
- 2324 Massachusetts Ave NW: town house (arch. Embassy of Greece
- 2328 Massachusetts Ave NW: town house (arch. Donn and Deming, 1922)
- 2332-38 Massachusetts Ave NW: row of four townhouses (arch. Nicholas T. Haller, 1899)[3]
- 2340 Massachusetts Ave NW: townhouse (1914), now Embassy of Burkina Faso
- 2344 Massachusetts Ave NW: George Wallace William Hanger House (arch. William James Palmer, 1907)[29]
- 2346 Massachusetts Ave NW: George Cabot Lodge House (arch. Wood, Donn & Deming, 1905)[30]
- 2360 Massachusetts Ave NW: townhouse (arch. Embassy of Kyrgyzstan
- 2370 Massachusetts Ave NW: Alice W.B. Stanley House (arch. Smith & Edwards, 1930), now Korean Cultural Center[31]
- 2374 Massachusetts Ave NW: townhouse (1921), now Embassy of Madagascar
- 2406 Massachusetts Ave NW: Nellie and Isabelle Sedgeley House (arch. Nathan C. Wyeth, 1911), now Cultural Office of the Embassy of the UAE[3]
- 2408 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of Malawi
- 2412: Frederick Atherton House (arch. Nathan C. Wyeth and Francis P. Sullivan, 1930)
- 2424 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of Cote d'Ivoire (arch. Wanchul Lee, 2004)
- 2432 Massachusetts Ave NW: house (1951), now residence of the Ambassador of Algeria
- 2440 Massachusetts Ave NW: Permanent mission of Mexico to the OAS
- 2450 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of South Korea (arch. Horace W. Peaslee, 1953)[32]
- 2500 Massachusetts Ave NW: apartment house (arch. Louis E. Sholtes, 1922)[33]
- 2516 Massachusetts Ave NW: Old Ambassador's Residence of the , 1931)
- 2520 Massachusetts Ave NW: Chancery of the Embassy of Japan(arch. Robert B. Anderson, 1986)
- 2536 Massachusetts Ave NW: Chancery Annex of the Embassy of India (1954)
- 2540 Massachusetts Ave NW: The Army and Navy apartment house (arch. Harry L. Edwards, 1925)[34]
- 2558 Massachusetts Ave NW: Spanish Mission to the Organization of American States (1926)
- 3000 Whitehaven St NW: Embassy of Italy (arch. Piero Sartogo, 2000)
- 3025 Whitehaven St NW: Embassy of Sri Lanka
- 3200 Whitehaven St NW: Embassy of Denmark(1960)
- 3000 Massachusetts Ave NW: Robert S. McCormick House (arch. John Russell Pope, 1928), now residence of the Ambassador of Brazil
- 3006 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of Brazil (arch. Olavo Redig de Campos, 1971)
- 3014 Massachusetts Ave NW: house (1941), now Embassy of Bolivia
- 3100 Massachusetts Ave NW: Embassy of the United Kingdom (arch. Edwin Lutyens, 1931); chancery building (arch. Eric Bedford) added in the late 1950s.
- 3450 Massachusetts Ave NW: United States Naval Observatory
Statuary
The monumental setting of the Row has favored the erection of many memorials and statues. They are erected either on private grounds, many of them by the embassies to showcase a prominent national figure, or on public (federal) land following an
- Samuel Hahnemann Monument on the eastern side of Scott Circle, by Charles Henry Niehaus (1900)
- Equestrian statue of Winfield Scott, by Henry Kirke Brown(1874)
- the Daniel Webster Memorial, by Gaetano Trentanove (1900)
- a modern bust of Embassy of Peru(2011)
- a Embassy of Chile(2009)
- the Dupont Circle Fountain, by Daniel Chester French (1920)
- a statue of Hindu goddess Indonesian Embassy, with a group of three children including a young Barack Obama in front (2013)[36]
- the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial by Gautam Pal, in front of the Indian Embassy (2000)
- a bronze cast of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon, in front of the Society of the Cincinnati (2008). (This statue was moved away in June 2020.[37])
- the statue of Tomas Masaryk, by Vincenc Makovský(1937, cast 1968, erected 2002)
- a copy in reduced size of the 1969 bronze statue of Greek Embassy(2009)
- the statue of Turkish Ambassador's residence (2013)[38]
- Equestrian statue of Philip Sheridan, by Gutzon Borglum (1908)
- the South Korean Consular Section, by Jae-kil Lee(2008)
- a bust of Ambassador of Chile (2018)[39]
- the statue of St Jerome by Ivan Meštrović, in front of the Croatian Embassy (1954, relocated c. 1998)
- a cast of Allow Me by Seward Johnson, in front of the house on 2346 Massachusetts Ave NW (1984)
- the statue of Robert Emmet, by Jerome Connor (1916, relocated 1966)
- an abstract sculpture by Dong-koo Yun in front of the Korean Embassy (2000)
- another statue of Turkish Embassy (2004)[40]
- the British Embassy(1966)
- the statue of Nelson Mandela by Jean Doyle, in front of the South African Embassy (2013)[41]
- the monument to Khalil Gibran, by Gordon S. Kray(1991)
- the statue of Norwegian Embassy(2005)
Other embassies in Washington, D.C.
In the immediate vicinity of Embassy Row, many other embassies and diplomatic residences are located within one or two blocks of Massachusetts Avenue on cross streets, particularly R, S, and 22nd Streets NW near Sheridan Circle, and in the
In the early days of Washington, D.C., most diplomats and ambassadors lived on or around
In the first three decades of the 20th century, several European legations gathered farther northeast, on a section of
A high-security enclave in
A number of other embassies are scattered south of Massachusetts Avenue and closer to the
. The Caribbean Chancery on 3216 New Mexico Avenue NW hosts the embassies of four English-speaking Caribbean nations.See also
- Charles Carroll Glover
- List of diplomatic missions in Washington, D.C.
References
- ^ a b "International Embassies in Washington, DC | Washington DC". washington.org. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
- ^ "EMBASSY ROW". Washington Walks.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Emily Hotaling Eig and Julie Mueller, Traceries (1989). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Sheridan-Kalorama Historic District".
- ^ "Passport DC Still Opening Doors — And Not Just to Embassies". The Washington Diplomat. May 2012.
- ^ "About Us". The Embassy Series.
- ^ "Massachusetts Avenue Historic District brochure" (PDF). District of Columbia. 2000. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-04-26.
- ^ "DC Inventory of Historic Sites". District of Columbia. Archived from the original on 2013-12-28.
- ^ E.J. Applewhite (1981). Washington Itself: An Informal Guide to the Capital of the United States.
- ^ "The Bay State Apartments". Emporis. Archived from the original on April 14, 2014.
- ^ "Modernism in Washington brochure" (PDF). District of Columbia. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-04-26.
- ^ Paul K. Williams (2001). Images of America: The Neighborhoods of Logan, Scott, and Thomas Circles. Arcadia Publishing. p. 127.
- ^ "Winthrop House". Emporis. Archived from the original on April 14, 2014.
- ^ "Application for Historic Landmark, B.F.Saul Building" (PDF). DC Historic Preservation Office. October 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04.
- ^ Sue A. Kohler; Jeffrey R. Carson (1988). Sixteen Street Architecture. U.S. Commission of Fine Arts.
- ^ "The History of 2027 Massachusetts Avenue (RAC's building)". Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism.
- ^ a b c d e "DC Architects Directory: Louis D. Meline" (PDF). D.C. Office of Planning. 2010.
- ^ "DC Architects Directory: Harvey Linsley Page" (PDF). D.C. Office of Planning. 2010.
- ^ "Lost & Found Washington: The Hopkins-Miller Houses on Dupont Circle". The House History Man. April 9, 2012.
- ^ "Euram Building". SAH Archipedia. Archived from the original on 2015-09-25. Retrieved 2014-04-26.
- ^ "DC Architects Directory: Matthew G. Lepley" (PDF). D.C. Office of Planning. 2010.
- ^ "George Oakley Totten". Living Places.
- ^ Dickey, Christopher (December 12, 1978). "Third Embassy Property Relinquished by Taiwan". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 14, 2015.
- ^ Sigurd Pacher. "Austria's Chanceries and Residences in Washington". Austrian Embassy.
- ^ Julia Blakely (December 22, 2013). "Wardman and the British Embassy". washingtonembassygardens.wordpress.com.
- ^ "CH Harlow House". Philadelphia Architects & Buildings.
- ^ "Count Laszlo and Countess Gladys Vanderbilt Széchényi House (Maie H. Williams House)". SAH Archipedia. 16 July 2018.
- ^ Julia Blakely (December 22, 2013). "Frederick H. Brooke". washingtonembassygardens.wordpress.com.
- ^ "Newly Completed SGI-USA Washington, D.C., Culture Center Opening on "Embassy Row"". Soka Gakkai International. June 25, 2008.[permanent dead link]
- ^ NRHP Registration Form - Chapel of the Incarnation, Brandywine MD (PDF), 2000, p. 8:7
- ^ "George Cabot Lodge House". Philadelphia Architects & Buildings.
- ^ "Smith and Edwards". SAH Archipedia.
- ^ "DC Architects Directory: Horace Whittier Peaslee" (PDF). D.C. Office of Planning. November 2011.
- ^ James M. Goode (1988). Best Addresses: A Century of Washington's Distinguished Apartment Houses. Smithsonian. p. 222.
- ^ James M. Goode (1988). Best Addresses: A Century of Washington's Distinguished Apartment Houses. Smithsonian. p. 235.
- ^ "CHURCHILL, Winston: Statue at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C." dcMemorials.com. Archived from the original on 2011-08-19. Retrieved 2014-05-03.
- ^ Mike Ghouse (June 19, 2013). "Goddess Saraswati Statue With Barack Obama Symbolizes Relationship Between Indonesia and the U.S." HuffingtonPost.
- ^ Prince Of Petworth (2 July 2020). "Society of the Cincinnati appears to have removed their George Washington Statue from Mass. Ave". Popville.
- ^ Bulent Atalay (December 10, 2013). "A Defining Statue of Ataturk". National Geographic NewsWatch.
- ^ Michael Laris (February 26, 2018). "A Chilean and American monument to Pinochet bombing victims rises in Washington". Washington Post.
- ^ James M. Goode (2008). Washington Sculpture: A Cultural History of Outdoor Sculpture in the Nation's Capital. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- ^ "Mandela Statue Unveiled in Washington". Voice of America. September 21, 2013.
- ^ United States Department of State. "History of the International Chancery Center (ICC)". Archived from the original on 2017-04-29. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
External links
- United States Department of the Treasury: List of addresses of foreign embassies and consulates in the U.S., — maintained for the International Trade Data System initiative.