Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1921/00/00 | Beatrix Farrand | Landscape Architect | Mr and Mrs Bliss hire Beatrix Ferrand to create the 10 acre formal gardens around Dumbarton Oaks. Until the late 1940s, Beatrix worked with Mildred to create a landscape that blends American Arts and Crafts with Italian and English garden style. | |||
1921/00/00 | Frederick H Brooke | Architect | Robert and Mildred Bliss hire Colonial Revival architect Frederick H Brooke to renovate their newly-purchased, neglected Georgetown mansion. In 1923, Mildred let him go and hired Lawrence Grant White of McKim, Mead and White in his place. | |||
1924/00/00 | Lawrence Grant White | Architect | Lawrence White designs the Service Group, the Music Room and the East Bay of the living room (now Founders Room) at Dumbarton Oaks. | |||
1926/00/00 | Lawrence White hires Armand Albert Rateau to reproduce a French Renaissance ceiling and parquet floor for the Dumbarton Oaks Music Room. Rateau traveled to Dumbarton Oaks in person to see his installation in 1928. | |||||
1938/05/08 | Igor Stravinsky | Composer | In Dumbarton Oaks music room, Nadia Boulanger conducts the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's Concerto in E flat. | Concerto in E flat | ||
1944/08/21 | Stanley Dunbar Embick | US Delegate | Dumbarton Oaks Conference, 21 August 1944 to 7 October 1944, delegates from China, United Kingdon, USSR and the United States meet to discuss plans for the creation of the United Nations | Establishment of the United Nations | ||
1963/00/00 | Philip Johnson | Architect | Philip Johnson Pavilion opens as a space for the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. |
Particulars for Dumbarton Oaks: | |
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Sight Category | Building |
Area of Significance | Landscape Architecture |
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