Historically associated with George Washington, in which English county is Sulgrave Manor
Sulgrave Club 1932, for $125,000. The women renamed it the Sulgrave Club, a club intended for music, art and social gatherings. The new club's name came from Sulgrave, the civil parish in Northamptonshire, England that had been the ancestral family home of George Washington. The Sulgrave Club was designed by Frederick H. Brooke in a Beaux-Arts design from the 18th century. It is one of Washington's first mansions to follow this style of architecture. The house was built of yellow Roman brick and cream terra cotta. Sulgrave Club The Sulgrave Club is a private club located at 1801 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., on
Sulgrave doorway of which are set in plaster the royal arms of England and initials "ER" for "Elizabeth Regina" commemorating Elizabeth I, who acceded to the English throne in 1558. The doorway spandrels are decorated with the Washington family arms: two bars and three mullets or spur-rowels. In about 1673 Sulgrave Manor passed to the Rev Moses Hodges, from whom it passed to his son John Hodges. The lands of Sulgrave manor had become divided into three estates, but John Hodges reunited them. Behind the great hall is a staircase with twisted balusters that was added late in the 17th century.