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Embassy of Argentina, Washington, D.C.

Coordinates: 38°54′40″N 77°2′32″W / 38.91111°N 77.04222°W / 38.91111; -77.04222
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Embassy of Argentina, Washington, D.C.
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LocationWashington, D.C.
Address1600 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W.
Coordinates38°54′40″N 77°2′32″W / 38.91111°N 77.04222°W / 38.91111; -77.04222
Websitehttp://www.eeeuu.mrecic.gov.ar/

The Embassy of Argentina in Washington, D.C. is the Republic of Argentina's diplomatic mission to the United States. It's located at 1600 New Hampshire Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C.[1]

Embassy Building

Located in the neighborhood of Dupont Circle and commissioned in 1906 by Pennsylvania Congressman George Franklin Huff, the mansion at 1600 New Hampshire Avenue NW was designed by Julian Abele (1881-1950), the first African-American graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s architecture program, when he was working with Horace Trumbauer. Mr. Huff was a delegate to the 1880 Republican National Convention, and member of the Pennsylvania State Senate (1884-1888). In 1891, he was elected to the Fifty-second Congress and reelected for five more terms. Married to Henrietta Burrell, they were the parents of eight children.

The Argentine Government purchased the building on February 20, 1913, from Mrs. Henrietta Huff, who decided to sell the house after her husband’s death in 1912.

Julian Abele designed the Widener Library at Harvard University and several buildings for Duke University in North Carolina, mansions in Newport Rhode Island and New York as well as many buildings in Washington.  The ballroom was added in the decade of 1940 by another prominent architect Clarke Waggaman for the Embassy of Argentina.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Argentine Republic". Embassy. 2011-01-06. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
  2. ^ "Its building | Embajada en Estados Unidos". www.eeeuu.mrecic.gov.ar. Retrieved 2018-09-15.
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