McClellan Family Townhome

The McClellan family townhome (called Townhome in-game) is a house located on 2026 Bradley Place in Georgetown in Washington, D.C., now inhabited only by a dormant Mister Handy.

Background
The townhouse was previously home to the McClellan family, made up of the parents, a baby, a child, the dog Muffy, and the family's Mr. Handy. Only the fates of the last three are known: the boy died in bed, the dog died in the backyard, and the robot lies dormant but still fully functional at its station.

Exterior
The home is located on the first floor of a three-story brick building. By the small backyard is a centaur and a leveled super mutant wielding a melee weapon. The family's dog, Muffy, can be found dead beside a full bottle of whiskey.

Interior
The home is small, consisting of the main living room (in which a derelict baby carriage can be found), the kitchen, the children's bedroom, the room with the dormant Mr. Handy, and the master bedroom upstairs. Inside the children's room are the remains of the family's oldest son, lying in bed still holding his teddy bear, along with an assortment of toys. In the adjacent room is the dormant (but still working) Mr. Handy, beside which is the unprotected terminal that can be used to control it. Lastly, the master bedroom upstairs consists only of a couple-sized bed, a chair, and a ceiling light.

Notable loot

 * Lying, Congressional Style can be found on a table in the first room.

Appearances
The McClellan family townhome appears only in Fallout 3.

Behind the scenes

 * This location is a reference to Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains," about a robotic house in Allendale, California that still works after a nuclear war, not knowing that its owners have perished in the atomic blast. The poem that the Mister Handy recites is "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale, a post-apocalyptic poem from 1920, which also inspired Bradbury's story of the same name.
 * "Only one living thing makes an appearance in the [Bradbury] story: a wild dog (though a family dog in later versions), which had been slowly dying from radiation poisoning. It makes its way back to the house only to die; its corpse is then swiftly removed by the house's automated cleaning robots." The dead body of the McClellans' dog Muffy can be found in the vicinity of the house exterior.
 * The name of the townhome is also a reference to the McClellan family from another one of Ray Bradbury's books, Fahrenheit 451. The address "Bradley Place" is a play-on-words of Ray Bradbury's last name, while the number of 2026 is a reference to the setting of "There Will Come Soft Rains", taking place in August 2026.

Sara Teasdale - There Will Come Soft Rains