HOUSE OF THE WEEK | The prestigious building has been home to ambassadors, military officers, a Supreme Court justice and a vice president.
Douglas MacArthur II, who was named for his uncle, the famous general, was among the luminaries who called 2101 Connecticut home. He was a career diplomat and served as U.S. ambassador to Japan and Belgium. His wife, Laura, had resided in the building with her parents, Alben and Dorothy Barkley. Alben Barkley lived here while serving as Harry Truman’s vice president.
Bill Maillard, a congressman from California and ambassador to the Organization of American States, and his wife were known for their July Fourth fireworks-watching party at the building. Other notables who lodged at 2101 Connecticut were U.S. Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark, Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas and Rep. H. Malcolm Baldridge of Nebraska, whose daughter Letitia served as first lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s social secretary.
Because Chowdhurie and her husband had remodeled two previous homes, this project did not intimidate them. But modernizing the apartment, which hadn’t been updated recently, was a challenge. “I kept thinking, ‘How on earth are we going to do this?’ Because the plumber kept saying no,” Chowdhurie said. “What I did was I went and looked at other apartments — people are very nice — and then I found someone who had a powder room. I asked them how they managed to put it there.”“I’m closet crazy,” she said. “I like where I live to be neat, and I don’t want to cram things into closets so I always joke that I create closets out of nowhere.
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