Harvard Club of Washington, DC

SOLD OUT! HE Namik Tan, The Ambassador of Turkey, has invited us to his residence

 Please be prompt. Business attire is mandatory. Please refrain from wearing jeans.

Members and their guests-$45.00 each

Nonmembers may also attend.-$70.00 each

All proceeds will benefit the Harvard Club of Washington, DC

6:30-6:45 registration of guests

6:45-7:15 Ambassador Tan

7:15-7:30 Question and Answers

7:30-8:30 Reception

History of the Residence:

Edward Hamlin Everett House, 1606 23rd St., NW, Washington, D.C. - 1914 (now Residence of the Ambassador of Turkey). Architect George Oakley Totten, Jr. [1] had a longstanding relationship with Turkey before the future Residence was built. He previously worked in Istanbul, where he designed the first American Chancery and a Residence for Izzet Pasha, the Grand Vezir, Prime Minister of the Empire. His work was so well received that he was offered the position of “Private Architect to the Sultan.” 
Mavi Boncuk |

One of the reasons diplomatic residences and chanceries lend themselves to becoming homes is, of course, that most of them were residences to begin with. Embassy Row, the stretch of Massachusetts Avenue NW from Scott Circle to Wisconsin Avenue, developed out of Millionaires’ Row, mansion after mansion built by the nation’s wealthy industrialists, who flocked to the capital between about 1890 and 1930. Everett House, the magnificent 1914 Sheridan Circle residence of Turkey’s ambassador, was designed by the noted George Oakley Totten Jr.[1], having been commissioned by an Ohio industrialist who made his fortune manufacturing beer and soda bottles.
[1] George Oakley Totten, Jr. (December 5, 1866–1939), was one of Washington D.C.’s most prolific and skilled architects in the Gilded Age. His international training and interest in architectural decoration led to a career of continuous experimentation and stylistic eclecticism which is clearly evident in many of his works. The mansions he designed were located primarily on or near Dupont, Sheridan (including Embassy Row), and Kalorama circles and along 16th Street, N.W., near Meridian Hill. Most now serve as embassies, chanceries, or offices for national or international organizations, their important public or semi-public functions, combined with their urbanistically integrated close-in locations, make them particularly visible exemplars of Washington's peculiar mixture of turn-of-the-century political and social life.

Ambassador's Biography