File:View looking down the north vista - Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC HABS DC,GEO,234-7.tif

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View looking down the north vista - Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
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Boucher, Jack E.

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Harvard University; Boulanger, Nadia; Stravinsky, Igor; McKim, Mead, and White; Johnson, Philip; Dorsey, William Hammond; Bliss, Robert Woods; Bliss, Mildred Barnes; Brooke, Frederick H; Waterman, Thomas; Wyeth and King; Farrand, Beatrix Jones; Havey, Ruth; Calhoun, John C; Yellin, Samuel; Price, Virginia B, transmitter; Arzola, Robert R, project manager
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View looking down the north vista - Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Depicted place District of Columbia; District of Columbia; Washington
Date 2000
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS DC,GEO,234-7
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  • Significance: 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.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N672
  • 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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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 67000025.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/dc0970.photos.378947p
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Camera location38° 53′ 42″ N, 77° 02′ 12.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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