Embassy Row in Washington, D.C.

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A strip of stately, tree-lined Massachusetts Avenue is home to about a third of the foreign embassies in Washington, D.C. Many of the Beaux-Arts mansions of Embassy Row, as it's known, have histories of their own. The Colombian ambassador's residence, here, was designed in the style of a 16th- or 17th-century French chateau.

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( Rosemary McClure / LAT / June 2, 2007 )

A strip of stately, tree-lined Massachusetts Avenue is home to about a third of the foreign embassies in Washington, D.C. Many of the Beaux-Arts mansions of Embassy Row, as it's known, have histories of their own. The Colombian ambassador's residence, here, was designed in the style of a 16th- or 17th-century French chateau.