Part of a vast estate off a quiet Georgetown street, the 10-acre garden of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection is a celebration of landscape. Italian, French, and English garden traditions are all on display, from sharply trimmed boxwood topiary to rambling hillside flower patches to beds ablaze with lilies, roses, fuchsia, and oleander; in springtime, the cherry trees lining the brick
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From El Greco's "The Visitation" to Byzantine and pre-Columbian artworks, jewelry and mosaics, Dumbarton Oaks is
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MUSEUM Recently reinstalled in renovated galleries, the Dumbarton Oaks Museum"s permanent exhibition features world-renowned collections of Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art. In addition, European masterpieces are exhibited in the historic Music Room, including Western Medieval and Renaissance sculpture, furniture and tapestry. Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss initiated these collections in the first
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While taking a walk around Georgetown, we decided to stop and see the gardens at Dumbarton Oaks. This required a fairly steep half-mile uphill climb from M Street (the main drag in Georgetown). This Harvard University r...
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This 19th-century Georgetown mansion is a major research center and a showcase for Byzantine and pre-Columbian art and books on garden history.
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The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection is housed in a nineteenth-century Federal-style house built on the crest of a wooded valley in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. The institution now has important research resources in the areas of Byzantine studies, the history of landscape architecture, and Pre-Columbian studies. The collections of Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art and the
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The site was part of a tract called The Rock of Dumbarton patented 1703 by Nintan Beall. The house was probably started 1799 by Samuel Jackson. It was completed 1805 by Joseph Nourse, first Registrar of the Treasury. He sold the property 1813 to Charles Carroll who named it Bellevue. Purchased by this Society 1928, it was restored to the early Federal period, renamed; and opened to the public 1932
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