The Parrot restaurant was housed in the George S Fraser mansion at 1643 Connecticut Avenue NW, just north of Dupont Circle in Washington DC.

Designed by the prominent Washington architecture firm Hornblower and Marshall, it was the home of a New York merchant and then home to Miriam Douglas Thropp, daughter of Abraham Lincoln’s assistant Secretary of War and president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Thomas Alexander Scott

When she died in 1930, the elaborate mansion made of pink granite with Palladian windows and a pillared portico was opened to the public and began operating as a tearoom, famous for its bread and cakes.

In the late 1940s the tearoom was taken over by Jeff Ford Hotels, owner of the Hotel Lafayette (in the shadow of the White House) and the Carroll Arms (in the shadow of the Capitol).

In 1950, the tearoom was taken over by John and Hilda Goldstein who renamed it the Golden Parrot. A Washington Post review of the restaurant described it as’ a pretty plush establishment that has many features of a swank town house or private club with all the facilities of a modern dining room.’

President Dwight D Eisenhower reportedly ate there with the boxer Rocky Marciano in 1953.

The Golden Parrott closed in 1974 and the property then became the Sagittarius Nightclub.

Today, the former home is the National Affairs office of the Church of Scientology.