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Swann House Historic Dupont Circle Inn
Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States · Independent · Near Luxury
Walter Paris, a Washington painter and architect, built this freestanding Dupont mansion in 1883 for about $18,000 and never lived in it, keeping rooms at the Cosmos Club when he was in town. In January 1912 Eva Roberts Cromwell married Edward Stotesbury here, with President Taft and J.P. Morgan among the guests. The house later became a boarding house, then a ten-room bed-and-breakfast. Christine and Matt Traylor bought it in February 2025.
- 10 rooms
- Opened 1996
- Neighborhood: Dupont Circle
- Architect: Walter Paris
About Swann House Historic Dupont Circle Inn
- In 1899 Colonel Theodore Tyrer hired Thomas Franklin Schneider, who had studied with H.H. Richardson, to replace the wood porch with the brick and stone porch still facing New Hampshire Avenue.
- In 1986 Mark Montgomery and Wallace Tutt restored the mansion and named it Swann House for Swann Street. Ten fireplaces stayed, and a pool went in behind the house.
- By 1920 the owner was David Houston, Woodrow Wilson's secretary of agriculture and later secretary of the treasury.
- Richard and Mary Ross opened the house as a bed-and-breakfast in 1996, after buying the restored mansion in 1989.
History
Architect and painter Walter Paris built the freestanding mansion at 1808 New Hampshire Avenue NW in 1883 for about $18,000 and did not live there. Colonel Theodore Tyrer owned it from 1886 and in 1899 hired Thomas Franklin Schneider to rebuild the porch. In January 1912 Eva Roberts Cromwell married Edward T. Stotesbury in the house, with President Taft and J.P. Morgan present. David Houston, Wilson's agriculture secretary, owned it by 1920. After the Second World War it was a boarding house and then sat in disrepair. Mark Montgomery and Wallace Tutt restored it in 1986 and named it Swann House for Swann Street. Richard and Mary Ross bought it in 1989 and opened the bed-and-breakfast in 1996. Verdigreen renovated it after a 2022 purchase. Christine and Matt Traylor bought the ten-room inn in February 2025.
The setting
1808 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Dupont Circle, at the Swann Street corner. One of the older freestanding mansions in the neighborhood. Georgetown and Adams Morgan are a short ride, not the walk out the door.
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