Abandoned Buildings Walking Tour 3: Rotting Embassies and Defunct Countries
Often thought as permanent foreign outposts, even embassies aren’t immune to growing pains and moving trucks. On this tour, we’ll visit where diplomats once lived and worked until growth, rent, a change in style, or even the dissolution of the nation they once represented forced them to move. Some have been left empty (and hopefully will have tags fittingly scrawled on their once immaculate walls), while others have been converted to modern offices, apartments, and stately homes. Come explore the forgotten history of embassies past.
Location
Embassy Row
TBD
Washington,
DC
Neighborhood: Dupont Circle
Past event
Instructors
Elena Goukassian has been a KCDC organizer since 2011. She has an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown and now works as an arts writer, reporter, and editor.
Matt Lesko knows about (and often goes to) every underground artsy event that happens in the District. He has been a devoted student of Knowledge Commons classes since the beginning and is a huge fan of historical places and meticulous research.