Meridian Hall is an historic house in the
Columbia Heights neighborhood of
Washington, D.C. It has been listed on the
District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites since 1990 and it was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1991 as the Mansion at 2401 15th Street, NW. Today, it is headquarters of the
Art of Living Foundation.
History
The house was commissioned by
Mary Foote Henderson who led the movement to make Sixteenth Street NW and the Meridian Hill area of Washington and enclave of mansions and embassies.
This structure did serve as an embassy, as it was intended, for a brief period of time, serving the Egyptian government.
Architecture
George Oakley Totten Jr., who was known as Washington's leading
Beaux-Arts architect, designed this house in the
Tudor Revival style.
[ It was completed in 1923. The exterior features a scored ]stucco
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façade which is reminiscent of an English manor house. The front sports a large arched entrance portal and the building has panels of casement windows and cast stone quatrefoil
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ornamentation. The interior features a large central staircase, salons, ballroom, and a dining hall that is ornamented in the Tudor classical style.
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Buildings and structures in Columbia Heights, Washington, D.C.
Houses completed in 1923
Tudor Revival architecture in Washington, D.C.
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
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