Clarence Moore House, Washington, D.C.
Clarence Moore House, Washington, D.C. | |
Serving as the Embassy of Uzbekistan since 1993 | |
| Location | 1746 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington, D.C., U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 38°54′30″N 77°02′26″W / 38.90833°N 77.04056°W |
| Built | 1909 |
| Architect | Bruce Price Jules Henri de Sibour |
| Architectural style | Beaux-Arts |
| Part of | Dupont Circle Historic District (ID78003056) |
| NRHP reference No. | 73002076 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | April 3, 1973 |
| Designated CP | July 21, 1978 |
The Clarence Moore House, Washington, D.C. (also known as the Embassy of Uzbekistan and the Old Canadian Embassy), is a building in Washington, D.C. which is on the National Register of Historic Places. An example of Beaux Arts architecture in blond Roman brick with limestone dressings, it was built in 1909 by Clarence Moore, a wealthy coal magnate, as his family residence. It has been on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) since 1973.
Moore died in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. From then on, his widow, Mabelle, used the house mainly for social and entertaining purposes. In 1927, she sold it to the Government of Canada, which used it as the Canadian diplomatic mission until 1989. In 1992, Canada sold the building to the Republic of Uzbekistan which has used it since 1993 as the Embassy of Uzbekistan.