Category:Dumbarton Oaks
No other property combines mansion, collections, and gardens into such an aesthetically compelling early to mid-twentieth century vision of estate living in Georgetown. Starting with the Bliss's occupancy and continuing under Harvard's ownership, Dumbarton Oaks has been a site of internationally significant cultural and political events. In 1938, Nadia Boulanger conducted, in the music room, the world premier of Igor Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks Concerto, commissioned by Mrs. Bliss, and nine years later Stravinsky conducted his concerto at Dumbarton Oaks. Stravinsky and Boulanger were two of this century's most important musicians. In 1944, the planning sessions that led to the creation of the United Nations were held in the Dumbarton Oaks music room. Two of this century's most important architectural firms, McKim, Mead and White and Philip Johnson, have designed major spaces at Dumbarton Oaks. Furthermore, the present Georgian Revival house incorporates a Federal Period house dating from approximately 1800. In addition, several locally prominent and one nationally prominent man associated with the house in the nineteenth century.
- Survey number: HABS DC-825
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1800- ca. 1801 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 1921-1925 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1940 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1963 Subsequent Work
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1992 Byzantine Studies Symposium, Dumbarton Oaks.jpg 1,111 × 816; 461 KB
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Canopy of trees at Dumbarton Oaks - panoramio.jpg 3,872 × 2,592; 4.86 MB
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Dumbarton Oaks - Georgetown - Washington DC (7702956804).jpg 4,608 × 3,456; 4.29 MB
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Dumbarton Oaks - house photo with snow.jpg 4,152 × 2,355; 8.87 MB
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Dumbarton Oaks facade.jpg 3,158 × 1,683; 3.58 MB
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Dumbarton Oaks Garden, Washington, D.C LCCN2011630737.tif 6,118 × 4,889; 85.6 MB
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Dumbarton Oaks north face.jpg 3,183 × 1,868; 781 KB
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Dumbarton Oaks site plan (HABS).jpg 8,297 × 6,488; 10.16 MB
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Dumbarton Oaks solarium.jpg 2,013 × 3,613; 971 KB
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Dumbarton Oaks wall.jpg 5,283 × 2,902; 5.91 MB
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Dumbarton Oaks window.jpg 2,048 × 3,648; 975 KB
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Dumbarton Oaks, 1938 (5242083999).jpg 2,643 × 1,728; 459 KB
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Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C LCCN2011631524.tif 4,331 × 3,416; 84.69 MB
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Pergola - Dumbarton Oaks - Georgetown - Washington DC -juli 2012- (7703088968).jpg 4,608 × 3,456; 4.47 MB
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