Diplomat, Heyward Isham, owned this house in 1967. As acting chief of the U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Accords, Isham was a prominent figure in the historic negotiations that ended direct U.S. involvement in Vietnam. He was also United States Ambassador to Haiti from 1974 to 1977. Isham retired from the Foreign Service in 1987 and became Senior Editor for Doubleday Publishing. He passed away in 2009.