Amble along EmbassyRow and you’ll stumble upon on an uncommon sight: a grand edifice that doesn’t bear a foreign flag. Here, a look at the Anderson House, a museum and the headquarters of the lineage-based group Society of the Cincinnati. — Kris Coronado
Built in 1905, Anderson House was a winter residence for diplomat Larz Anderson and his wife, Isabel, until Larz, a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, died in 1937. The next year, Isabel donated the home to the lineage-based group, founded in 1783 by Continental and French officers who fought in the Revolutionary War. A mural fictionalizes the society’s founding with George Washington, its first president general, and Marquis de Lafayette, center left. Larz Anderson’s grandfather Lt. Col. Richard Clough Anderson, with brown hair, was a founding member.
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