McClellan Family Townhome

The McClellan Family Townhome is a house located on 2026 Bradley Place in Georgetown in Washington D.C.

The name of the family that used to live there is a reference to Ray Bradbury's story "There Will Come Soft Rains", about a robotic house in Allendale, California, that still works after a nuclear war, not knowing that it's owners have perished in an atomic blast. In the story, the house owners last name was also McClellan.

Inside the house we can find an operational Mr. Handy robot, who we can control using the terminal located by his station. One of the commands is "Read Children Bedtime Poem". If selected, the Mr. Handy will go to the children's room, and begin reciting the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale. This is also a reference to Bradbury's story, in which the main computer of the robotic house read the same poem, not knowing that the person who's supposed to be listening is long gone.

Sara Teasdale - There Will Come Soft Rains

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone.