Ruth Havey to Mildred Bliss, August 4, 1949
Accession number | K:RH 1949.08.04 |
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Sender | |
Recipient | |
Garden Area |
Cool House
North Vista
Director’s House and Terrace
Rose Garden
Terrior Column and Enclosure
Arbor Terrace
Mélisande’s Allée
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Date |
1949
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Work types |
correspondence
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Description
Typewritten letter briefly discussing work to be done in various garden areas. This work is included in the Dumbarton Oaks Agenda, August 2, 1949. Specific agenda items included: for the Arbor Garden or Arbor Terrace: wall panels, paving plan, and a possible solution for the lead cabinet or bookcase missing handle; for Mélisande's Allée: steps, inner ramp, outer ramp, present stone wall, seat, and drainage; for Rose Garden: finalities shield and arms materials, Quod Severis Metes inscription design and material of Tennessee marble; for the Terrior Column and Enclosure: the seat and support materials, graveling walkway, shifting of small shrubs, thinning bamboo, and removing large hemlocks suggesting possible plant replacement near walkway; for the Founders' Room: wall fabric; for the Greenhouse or Cool House conversion to a Garden Center suggesting replacement roof materials and other alterations.
Sketches were included in Agenda for the Arbor Garden or Terrace paving and wall panels; Founders' Room wall fabric; Mr. Steinbraker's plan of the Garden Center or Cool House; and other estimates for work by Mr. Steinbraker. Outlines which construction projects should proceed at once.
Originally included bills for work in June and July, and a sample of Pink Tennessee Marble for the Finalities.
Originally included Dumbarton Oaks Agenda, August 2, 1949 (K:RH 1949.08.02).
On Havey's professional letterhead with handwritten signature, notes, and sketches.
In heading: care of Mr. Ellis Russell.
Title created by cataloger.
Subjects
Collection
Repository
Accession number | K:RH 1949.08.04 |
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Sender | |
Recipient | |
Garden Area |
Cool House
North Vista
Director’s House and Terrace
Rose Garden
Terrior Column and Enclosure
Arbor Terrace
Mélisande’s Allée
|
Date |
1949
|
Work types |
correspondence
|