One of the many embassies that lives on Massachusetts Avenue in the Dupont Circle neighborhood, the Uzbekistan Embassy cuts out of the stretch as a Beaux Arts beauty, with limestone balustrades, windows with corbels and guttae. The mansion once belonged to a coal magnate who drowned with the Titanic, and later became the Canadian embassy, now the Uzbekistan Embassy.

The mansion, designed by architects Bruce Price and Jules Henri de Sibour, who designed many prominent homes in the Washington area, was built in 1909. Clarence Moore, the owner, wasn’t able to enjoy the house long, as he drowned with the Titanic three years later. His widow, Mabel, didn’t want to use the house as a residence, and after she remarried, sold it to Canada to use as an embassy.

The property remained under the ownership of the Canadian government until the 1990s, even though the building hadn’t been used as the official embassy since the 70s, after Canada purchased land on Pennsylvania Avenue to build a new embassy. The building was bought by Uzbekistan in 1992, after it established diplomatic relations with the United States, and is now used as the country’s embassy. As of 2008, the property has been valued at $11,985,600.

Fans of Borat might remember the house from the 2006 movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, as Sacha Baron Cohen’s character drives by the building and screams profanities at the embassy.