Finally made the connection between the Westerfeld House and this line from Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (which I read as a young lad) after seeing the monster house from the north, from way up on Post Street.
“Up at Fulton and Scott is a great shambling old Gothic house, a freaking decayed giant, known as The Russian Embassy”
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