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Real Estate Diplomacy Divides Washington Diplomatic Row
Washington real estate rivals push to establish prestige as embassies and legations shift from Embassy Row on Sixteenth Street to Massachusetts Avenue. Diplomats from Chile, Egypt, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Japan, the Dominican Republic, Canada, Hungary, Germany, and Belgium are moving, while the State Department weighs a housing rewrite and President Hoover favors a classical redesign of the federal granite building.
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League of Nations
Embassy Row
Upper Sixteenth Street
Jackson Square
White House
France
Spain
Mexico
Poland
Netherlands
Vernmen
Sixteenth Street
Napoleons
Metternichs
Massachusetts Avenue
Protestant Episcopal Cathedral
Japan
Dominican Republic
Massachusetts
Washington
State Department
Hoover