Proofed by: phadkep Time: 16:49 - 11-21-2007 Separation: C M Y K HIGH-RES PROOF. IMAGES ARE RIPPED. FULL PROOF INTEGRITY. Product: SOURCE LayoutDesk: SOU PubDate: 11-25-07 Zone: DC Edition: EE Page: RDTRIP C M Y K N8 SOURCE 11-25-07 DC EE N8 CMYK N8 Sunday, November 25, 2007 x The Washington Post RoadTrip The Stately Sights of Massachusetts Avenue WHERE: The District and Bethesda. $835,000 in 1901-03 but was sold in 1952 to the In- donesian government for $335,000. The house be- Leave the city behind on the 3A-mile WHY: A haunted mansion, the church of Darth came an embassy, and Millionaires’ Row turned into Little Falls Stream Valley Park Trail. Vader and sculptural surprises. Embassy Row. W Darth Vader may have once lorded over the I S C HOW FAR: About 11 miles from start to finish. Galactic Empire, but now he oversees the grounds O N S I of the Washington National Cathedral. The lime- N A V n Massachusetts Avenue, see how the stone Vader sculpture resulted from a cathedral con- E N U E mighty have risen — and fallen. test in 1985 in which children submitted designs for The 12-mile road, which stretches carvings. Look for Luke Skywalker’s father perched from the D.C. border with Prince amid the Gothic spires on the northwest tower, fac- George’s County into Bethesda, is ing the cathedral’s dark side, of course. MA SS best known for its stately mansions. During the Another fancy Massachusetts Avenue institution, AC HU O SE LITTLE FALLS 1920s, the area around Sheridan, Dupont and Scott the Henley Park Hotel, also features surprising TTS AVE PARKWAY . circles was so gilded with tycoons and socialites that sculpture. Among the 119 medieval-style gargoyles YLAND it became known as Millionaires’ Row. The Great are the faces of a cigar-chomping man and a bespec- MAR OF COLUMBIA Depression, however, turned many of those riches tacled woman. The immortalized couple are the ho- TRICT to rags. tel’s stone mason and his wife. Score one for the Little Falls DIS The opulent beaux-arts-style Walsh-McLean workingman. Stream Valley Park WESTMORELAND CIRCLE House near Dupont Circle, once the most expensive — Phuong Ly home in Washington, suffered the ultimate fall from VENUE M A AC grace. Gold-mining heiress Evalyn Walsh McLean AR TH UR American University bought the Hope Diamond in 1911 and became af- Road Trip maps are available at www. B EBRASKA LV N ored sculptures in front of theald the landing of aliens. washingtonpost.com/roadtrip, as are D seem to her flicted with its alleged curse: Her son died in a car . The round, pastel-colKatzen Arts Center Museum at the crash, her husband ran off with another woman, her addresses and hours of operation (be sure to American WARD CIRCLE daughter fatally overdosed on drugs and her debts check before you go). Have an idea for a trip? LOUGHBORO University RO A E-mail [email protected]. D piled up. The 60-room mansion had been built for Look for celestial bodies through the U.S. Naval WEDNESDAY IN STYLE Escapes goes tax-free shopping in Rehoboth Beach, Del. Observatory’s 12-inch refracting telescope. 34TH STREET CONN ECTICUT AV Take in one of the best views of Washington during tea time on the seventh floor of the U.S. Naval ENUE MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE Legend has it that gold miner Thomas F. Walsh embedded a gold bar Washington National Cathedral. Observatory over the arch of the Walsh-McLean House (now the Indonesian 16TH STREET Embassy) as a tribute to the source of his wealth. WIS CON D AVENUE SIN AVENUE SHERIDAN Q STREET 14TH STREET RHODE ISLAN CIRCLE DUPONT CIRCLE The Tudor-style Henley Park Hotel was originally an apartment building that housed senators and representatives. M STREET SCOTT CIRCLE THOMAS 10TH STREET K STREET CIRCLE N.Y. AVENUE Potom 395 a MASS c . AVENUE N. CAPITOL ST. R i v 6TH STREET e 21ST STREET 20TH STREET 9TH STREET 7TH STREET E STREET 66 r Congressional Cemetery Trust for Historic Preservation, w namedhich the as National one of 13TH STREET CONSTITUTION AVE. the country’s most endangered histor is experiencing a rebirth, thanks to volunteersic sites, MASS. AVENUE and dog owners, who pay a fee so their pets INDEPENDENCE AVENUE can roam free. PENNSYLVA 19TH STREET NIA AVENUE E STREET Fort 395 295 ENUE POTOMAC Congressional FORT Dupont AV D SOUT AVENUE U F Cemetery Park O HEAST FREEWAY P O R MASSA N T The bronze T D statue of Mahatma Gandhi D D BRANCH AVENUE CHUSETTSR AVE.. A led India to f V YLAN I reedom from British r , who INNESOTA S M D from India and the Indian Am ule, w R MAR as a gift . 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