American Ambassador Irwin Boyle Laughlin purchased this site in order to have a home built for his collection of French paintings and Oriental porcelain. John Russell Pope was chosen as the designer with construction ending in 1923.

Approximately six years later, the Architectural Forum wrote, “Certainly the manner of this house has not in this country been better done, not only in terms of stylistic authenticity, but in terms of pure architecture, meaning good taste in selectivity, in elimination, in execution. It cannot from its nature do otherwise than set a standard which should endure permanently."

Still, the structure retains much of its original details, including the wrought-iron and marble-topped side tables, the rear and side gardens, and some of the furnishings. The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Place in 1973.

Owned by the George Washington Universty Museum, this museum originally housed two buildings in Kalorama, one designed by Waddy Butler Wood and one by John Russell Pope.

Wood is known for designing the Woodrow Wilson House, the Masonic Temple, which is now used as the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and several residences.

Art collector George Hewitt Myers established the museum in 1925. The roughly 13,000-square-foot Myers home that was designed by John Russell Pope in 1913 features classical Georgian architectural designs. Wood’s and Pope’s buildings were joined in 1915.

Both properties were later added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

In Dupont Circle, this Masonic temple serves as the headquarters of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. Inside, there is a museum devoted to Albert Pike, an attorney and Freemason who rewrote a number of the Scottish Rite rituals. Construction on the structure began in 1911 and ended 1915.

When John Russell Pope designed the building, he used the tomb of King Mausolus at Halicarnassus as his model. The library inside offers one of the world’s largest collections of materials on and by Scottish poet Robert Burns.

In 1932, the American Institute of Architects voted the House of the Temple the fifth most beautiful building in the world.

This one-story, Vermont marble-covered building overlooks the slope leading to the Lincoln Memorial. Completed in 1933, the symmetrical building consists of a monolithic central block flanked by a “lower, subordinate element,” according to the National Register of Historic Places application.

It originally housed a museum, library, research laboratory, and offices. In circa 1962, Eggers and Higgins completed a three-story addition to the building.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977

It’s in this John Russell Pope-designed building that visitors can find the original copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. The building, itself, is also a sight worth seeing.

Described as a “building within a building,” the National Archives offers Corinthian columns and porticos in the outer structure as well as an exhibition, coffered half dome, and two large murals inside.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

The National Gallery of Art is composed of two buildings, the East Building, designed by I.M. Pei, and the West Building, designed by John Russell Pope. These two buildings are also connected by a moving walkway and light sculpture, created by American artist Leo Villareal.

What makes the West Building unique is its Neoclassical style, which contrasts Pei’s H-shaped structure. Inside the Italian Renaissance galleries, there is travertine wainscot and hand-finished plaster walls. The building’s three-acre roof also includes skylights, allowing visitors to see into the galleries below.

The building was designed in 1937 and renovated from 2007 to 2009.