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Dorothy Draper (November 22, 1889 – March 11, 1969) was an American interior decorator. Stylistically very anti-minimalist , she used bright, exuberant colors and large prints that encompassed whole walls.
This is a list of properties and districts in Washington, D.C., on the National Register of Historic Places.There are more than 600 listings, including 74 National Historic Landmarks of the United States and another 13 places otherwise designated as historic sites of national importance by Congress or the President.
Like many early interior designers, Dorothy Draper came from a privileged upbringing, and she smartly built the advantage of her wealth and social status into her business from its start in 1923.
The District of Columbia, capital of the United States, is home to 76 National Historic Landmarks.The National Historic Landmark program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance. [1]
Opened in 1930, the Art Deco hotel was designed by Sylvan Bien and Harry M. Prince, with interiors by Dorothy Draper. It was named after the Scottish author Thomas Carlyle . The Carlyle has approximately 190 hotel rooms and suites, in addition to 60 cooperative residences .
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The Grand Design, a 2022 novel by Joy Callaway, is a fictionalized life story of the interior decorator Dorothy Draper during her redesign of the Greenbrier, published by HarperCollins. The historical fiction novel In the Shadow of the Greenbrier , by Emily Matchar , tells the story of four generations of a Jewish family living near the ...
The front of the Mayflower was where The Washington Post national editor Ben Bagdikian transferred copied portions of the Pentagon Papers, an internal DoD study of the history of the Vietnam War given to him by Daniel Ellsberg, to U.S. Senator Mike Gravel, for reading into the congressional record, at midnight on June 26, 1971.