Embassy Row

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Embassy Row is the informal name for a street or area of a city in which embassies or other diplomatic installations are concentrated. Perhaps the best-known of these is in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. Washington's Embassy Row lies along Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., and its cross streets between Thomas Circle and Ward Circle, although the vast majority of embassies are found between Scott Circle and Wisconsin Avenue.

Considered Washington's premier residential address in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Massachusetts Avenue became known for its numerous mansions housing the city's social and political elites. The segment between Scott Circle and Sheridan Circle gained the nickname "Millionaires' Row".

The first embassy on Embassy Row, and still one of the most prominent, was the British Embassy, directly adjacent to the United States Naval Observatory. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens to combine the offices and the residence of the ambassador, resembling an English country house in the Queen Anne style of architecture.

The street began to lose its elite lustre in the 1920s, and some neighborhoods east of Scott Circle decayed as the Great Depression caused many to sell their homes. Fashionable living shifted from Massachusetts Avenue to 16th Street NW. The main impetus for the strip's recharacterization was the rise of the United States in the aftermath of World War II.Fact|date=March 2008 Nations competed to build or maintain grand residences to represent their nation's significance in the capital of the new superpower, and the expansive old estates proved well-suited for use as embassies (and also as lodges of social clubs).

Nations represented on Embassy Row

Except where specified, the following nations have addresses on Massachusetts Avenue NW.

* Armenia (address on R Street NW; see Embassy of Armenia in Washington)
* Australia
* Azerbaijan (address on 34th Street NW)
* Bahamas
* Belize
* Bolivia
* Brazil (see Embassy of Brazil in Washington)
* Bulgaria (address on 22nd Street NW)
* Burkina Faso
* Cameroon
* Cape Verde
* Central African Republic (address on 22nd Street NW)
* Chile
* Côte d'Ivoire
* Croatia (see Embassy of Croatia in Washington)
* Cyprus (address on R St. NW)
* Denmark (address on Whitehaven Street NW)
* East Timor (Timor-Leste)
* Estonia (see Embassy of Estonia in Washington)
* Finland
* Georgia
* Greece
* Guatemala (address on R Street NW)
* Haiti
* Holy See (see Nunciature of the Holy See in Washington DC)
* Iceland (address on 15th Street NW)
* India (see Embassy of India in Washington)
* Indonesia
* Ireland
* Italy (see Embassy of Italy in Washington; address on Whitehaven Street NW)
* Japan
* Latvia
* Lesotho
* Luxembourg (see Embassy of Luxembourg in Washington)
* Madagascar
* Malawi
* Marshall Islands
* New Zealand (see Embassy of New Zealand in Washington D.C.; address on Observatory Circle NW)
* Niger (address on R Street NW)
* Norway (address on 34th Street NW)
* Papua New Guinea
* Paraguay
* Peru
* Philippines (see Embassy of the Philippines in Washington)
* Portugal
* Romania
* South Africa (see Embassy of South Africa in Washington)
* South Korea
* Sudan
* Togo
* Trinidad and Tobago
* Tunisia
* Turkey (see Embassy of Turkey in Washington)
* Turkmenistan
* United Kingdom (see Embassy of the United Kingdom in Washington, D.C.)
* Uzbekistan (see Embassy of Uzbekistan in Washington, D.C.)
* Zambia