supervision went to an american who will be remembered as the architect for duke university and other places later on. the belmonts were really not to enjoy this exquisite house, and when you go in it, the virtuoso, the arch. s are straight out of -- [inaudible] he had that in all his houses, but this was very small compare today what he usually did. >> washington was still prudish, too prudish to absorb this. so the belmonts resided mostly in paris. the other houses were designed, most all, but local architects who seem to have been very clear on what was wanted; an impressive house for entertaining. the mode was almost always french as is pieces of anderson house to. the diplomats were entertained in these houses, anderson house, the townsend house, the wadsworth house and all the others, in fact, not so circumspect. it was they who gave the winter society its glamour. the diplomats were strict about public decorum, not so much in private. indeed, it was a worst crime to misbehave at a dinner party than to sleep with someone's wife. mrs. roosevelt knew this and could not bear it. weekly, the cabinet wives met wi