The Brodhead-Bell-Morton Mansion is a Beaux-Arts house located at 1500 Rhode Island Avenue, Northwest, in the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The building was constructed in 1879 to the designs of architect John Fraser and was remodeled in 1912 by architect John Russell Pope.
The mansion originally served as the private residence of John T. Brodhead and Jessie Willis Brodhead. Over the years, the building has housed various notable occupants, including Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, U.S. Vice President Levi P. Morton, the Embassy of Russia, and U.S. Secretary of State Elihu Root.
The Brodhead-Bell-Morton Mansion is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites. Its NRHP certification date is October 14, 1987.
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