About Our Venues
Larz Anderson House
In 1897, a certain Boston-born socialite named Isabel Weld Perkins caught the attention of a Parisian-born diplomat named Larz Anderson in Rome, Italy. A whirlwind Gilded Age romance ensued, and the two were married in Boston’s Back Bay in the social event of the season.
In 1905, Anderson House was completed on Embassy Row in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, DC. It was hailed as one of the city’s most fashionable mansions, “a Florentine villa in the midst of American independence.”
Anderson House is a nationally registered historic landmark, now run as a museum by the Society of the Cincinnati. For more history, visit societyofthecincinnati.org/the-story-of-anderson-house/.
Congressional Country Club
Nestled in the quiet suburban landscape just outside of Washington, DC, Congressional Country Club is a private club that can trace its lineage back to roaring 1924 and the tail end of the Gilded Age. Former U.S. Presidents William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover were all founding life members of the club.
Patrick and his siblings grew up going to Congressional, spending many a summer day toiling on the golf course, competing on the tennis courts, and back-flipping into the pool.