Historic Site, Washington, DC

Founded in 1878, the Cosmos Club is a private
social and cultural organization whose members are
eminent in their professional fields. Members have
included U.S. presidents, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize
winners, and recipients of the Presidential Medal
of Freedom and National Medals of Science and of
Technology and Innovation.
The Townsend house, on the original site of the
Hillyer house, was designed by Carrère and Hastings
for Mary Scott Townsend and Richard Townsend. Completed in 1900, the house was among the first of the grand Beaux-Arts mansions lining Massachusetts Avenue. The Townsend home became a center of Washington society. In 1950, the Cosmos Club purchased the property.
Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, 1973
Caption:Major John Wesley Powell, explorer, naturalist, scientist, and a founder and first president of the Cosmos Club.Portrait by E.H. Miller, Cosmos Club

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