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Mildred Bliss to Robert Patterson, August 16, 1949

 
Accession number F13:MB 1949.08.16
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Cool House
North Vista
Mélisande’s Allée
Arbor Terrace
Terrior Column and Enclosure
Bowling Green
Dumbarton Oaks Park
Kitchen Gardens
Date
1949
Work types
correspondence

Description

Typewritten letter discussing ongoing projects, including the North Vista platform, the Cool House transformation into a Garden Center, suppressing the old frameyard, removing the lotus arch in the Arbor Terrace, pruning and cutting some trees in Dumbarton Oaks Park, and crafting a budget.

Dictated but not signed, with handwritten corrections.

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

fences
finials
pavements (surface elements)
benches (furniture)
garden furniture
sundials
walls
niches
stucco
arbors
trees
plants
panels (ornament areas)
letters (correspondence)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Rare Book Collection
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington (D.C.)
Accession number F13:MB 1949.08.16
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Cool House
North Vista
Mélisande’s Allée
Arbor Terrace
Terrior Column and Enclosure
Bowling Green
Dumbarton Oaks Park
Kitchen Gardens
Date
1949
Work types
correspondence

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