Federal-period historic house museum. Dumbarton House hosts a regular schedule of special tours, free concerts, lectures, tastings, school programs and summer camps, and is also available for private rentals such as corporate, social, and wedding events. Limited parking and ADA-access is available behind the Museum via 27th Street at Q. Metrorail: Red Line, DuPont Circles Q Street exit. Metrobus:
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The Dumbarton House is a federal-style home owned and operated by the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America, which purchased it in 1928...
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Circa 1800, The Dumbarton House is a premiere example of Federal period architecture that features 18th- and 19th-century furniture and decorative arts (paintings, textiles, silver, and ceramics) made and used during the Republic's formative years. The Federal government and its many civil servants moved to Washington in 1800, and it was the family of Joseph Nourse, America's First Civil Servant (
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Built around 1800, this home bears the features of Federal architecture and reflects the history of Georgetown as a tobacco port.
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Dumbarton House is a Federal period historic house museum, ca. 1800 (first inhabited in 1803-1804). The mission of Dumbarton House is to preserve the historic structure and its collections and to educate the public about life in Washington, DC, during the early years of the Republic.
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home of the first registrar of the US Treasury, HQ of the Colonial Dames holds antique furnishings, documents from early presidents
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Standing on the heights of Georgetown for almost two centuries, this fine Federal-period house showcases period furniture and decorative arts of the late-18th and early-19th centuries. From the library to the dining room, through the music room to the parlor to the bedrooms upstairs, visitors to Dumbarton House today see a wealth of furniture, paintings, textiles, silver, and ceramics that were made
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