Brazil's first legation was thus established in Washington, D.C., a quarter-century after the founding of the American capital city on the Potomac River.

This campaign for liberation led with similar independence for Brazil with its crown prince and heir to the Portuguese throne who had resided for some time in South America, declaring independence from the mother country of the former unified trans-oceanic United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarves in 1822.

The embassy had several homes in the federal District of Columbia until, in 1934, it purchased McCormick House, a large manor on Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.

The modernist mirrored glass wall structure was designed by famous Brazilian architect Olavo Redig de Campos (1906-1984).

The embassy itself ceased to have consular responsibilities since the creation, in 2008, of the Consulate-General of Brazil, also in Washington, D.C., located at 1030 15th Street, N.W.