The “HushGalleria Mansion”

The Washington Post has its own story up now about the so-called “Third Crasher” at the Nov. 24 White House state dinner. His name is Carlos Allen, and he’s the man behind HUSH Society Magazine and the HushGalleria Mansion, a private party space located inside a large rowhouse in Mt. Pleasant.

We noted the Newsmax.com article that first reported the “third crasher” story at the end of the day yesterday, but since then we’ve also found some earlier reports that local bloggers and reporters had been looking at Allen for at least a few weeks. Q&A Cafe host Carol Joynt picked up this blog post by AskMissA on Dec. 11, for example, which noted that “Carlos allegedly posted some photos of himself at the State Dinner on Facebook, which were taken down when the Salahi Gate-Crashing story broke.”

So now the Secret Service has said that Allen did indeed make it inside the state dinner without an invite, although it doesn’t look like he actually met the President or first lady, and like the Salahis, he slipped out before the formal dinner began. Allen, for his part, denied the story to Politico last night. But what’s the deal with this HushGalleria Mansion?

The venue is a swanky house in the 3100 block of 18th Street NW (you can see more photos of the interior here), which a neighbor tells us plays host to large parties “every couple of weeks.” Allen doesn’t live there, but rather the house appears to be used exclusively as an event space.