U.S. Ambassador’s Residence -
London, United Kingdom
Winfield House is the residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James in London, United Kingdom. It is a neo-Georgian brick mansion built in 1936 by Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton after the original house was partly destroyed by fire. Designed by London architect Leonard Rome Guthrie, it occupies 12 acres on the northwest side of elegant Regent’s Park. Following World War II, Hutton gave the property to the U.S. government to be repaired and used as the official residence of the Ambassador. Her “most generous and patriotic offer” was accepted in a personal letter from President Harry Truman. For the token price of a U.S. dollar, Winfield House passed into official American ownership.