04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Why a birthday party in D.C. for a late French general was packed with guests
The birthday party on July 1 was in one of Washington's showstopping, Gilded Age mansions. And the guest list was maxed out at 120.
Maybe some of the well-dressed crowd came because of the luxe Embassy Row location. The stunning Anderson House on Massachusetts Avenue was called a 'Florentine villa in the midst of American independence' when reporters gushed over it in 1905.
