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The Dumbarton Oaks Gardens
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Beatrix Farrand,
Elizabeth Benson,
Gail Griffin,
Garden and Grounds,
Garden and Landscape Studies,
James Carder,
Joaquim Wolschke-Bulmahn,
John Beardsley,
John Dixon Hunt,
Josh Wilson,
Lovers' Lane Pool,
Margret Dawson,
Matthew O'Donnell,
Michel Conan,
Mildred Bliss,
Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle,
Susan Toby Evans,
William Howard Adams,
garden,
landscape
Maybe it was because it was dusk that I found myself feeling lost, even though I wasn’t lost at all. Gray powdery light silvered, softly, everything it touched, not to pacify it, but as if, with gentle correction, to rout matter altogether—trees, shrubs, and closing flowers, like so many eyelids nestled in sleep’s calyx, the stonework in […]
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Don’t Feed the Wildlife: Dumbarton Oaks and its Neighbors
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filed under:
Edward Keenan,
Elizabeth Taylor,
Georgetown,
Giles Constable,
James Carder,
Joe Mills,
John Warner,
Josh Wilson,
La Quercia,
Lois Fern,
Margret Dawson,
Mildred Bliss,
Oleg Grabar,
Richard Diehl,
Silvio Luciani,
Susan Toby Evans,
Tony Pereira,
Uncategorized
Though Dumbarton Oaks may feel “otherworldly”, as Margaret Dawson, an associate of Mildred Bliss, has it—what with its self-sufficiently immured Arcadian vistas and charmingly, necessarily arcane scholarly foci—no research institute is a world unto itself; even D.O. is part of the main, in rich and vibrant commerce with its environs and neighbors. As Georgetowners congregate […]
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The Swimming Pool
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Alexander Kazhdan,
Byzantine,
DC,
Dumbarton Oaks,
Garden and Grounds,
Georgetown,
Harvard,
Helen Evans,
James Carder,
James Curtin,
John Thacher,
Margret Dawson,
Richard Diehl,
Swimming pool,
Washington
Out of Dumbarton Oaks’s many prominent garden features, the swimming pool remains one of the most popular. The pool was built in the early 1920s, replacing the stable yard and manure pit belonging to the previous residents. Currently, the pool is available for use by all staff and Fellows of Dumbarton Oaks outside of the garden’s public hours. […]