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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
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.

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Particulars for Dumbarton Oaks:
Sight Category Building
Area of Significance Landscape Architecture




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