Landmark
Embassy Row
Gilded diplomatic mansions lining a grand avenue, each a former millionaire's palace turned foreign residence.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Embassy Row in Washington, D.C. centers on the Sheridan Circle mansion a bottle-cap fortune built for Edward Hamlin Everett, later rented to Turkish ambassador Munir Ertegun. You'll hear how his teenage sons, Ahmet and Nesuhi, used the house to host jazz musicians shut out of segregated Washington clubs, feeding Duke Ellington and Jelly Roll Morton at the family table. It follows a congressman's complaint about who used the front door, and the ambassador's answer to it.
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