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  2. Dumbarton Oaks - Wikipedia

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    Dumbarton Oaks, formally the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, is a historic estate in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was the residence and gardens of wealthy U.S. diplomat Robert Woods Bliss and his wife Mildred Barnes Bliss .

  3. Dumbarton Oaks Conference - Wikipedia

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    The Dumbarton Oaks Conference, or, more formally, the Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organization, was an international conference at which proposals for the establishment of a "general international organization", which was to become the United Nations, were formulated and negotiated.

  4. Dumbarton Oaks Park - Wikipedia

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    The Dumbarton Oaks Park is a public park, located in the 3100 block of R Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Georgetown neighborhood. Access is via Lovers' Lane from R Street, east of 32nd Street. It is located near Dumbarton Oaks, Montrose Park, and Oak Hill Cemetery. It is part of the Georgetown Historic District. [2]

  5. National Register of Historic Places listings in western ...

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    14 statues including 11 in central DC, and General Artemas Ward in American University Park 3: ... Dumbarton Oaks Park and Montrose Park. May 28, 1967

  6. The 30 Best Places to See Cherry Blossoms in the United States

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    Georgetown University has blooms, seen here against a campus clock tower, but the town's hidden gem is The Gardens of Dumbarton Oaks, where strolling Cherry Hill at peak bloom is arguably just as ...

  7. Dumbarton House - Wikipedia

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    Dumbarton House is a Federal style house located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was completed around 1800. Its first occupant was Joseph Nourse, the first Register of the Treasury. Dumbarton House, a federal period historic house museum, stands on approximately an acre of gardens on the northern edge of Georgetown ...

  8. Byzantine Institute of America - Wikipedia

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    The institute is located in the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, in Washington, D.C. The institute's founder was the scholar and archaeologist Thomas Whittemore. Thomas Whittemore in front of Hagia Sophia in 1930s.

  9. Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) - Wikipedia

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    Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel, designed by James Renwick Jr. in 1850, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Old Stone House, built 1765, is the oldest building structure still standing in Washington, D.C. Georgetown, depicted in 1862, shows the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and Aqueduct Bridge (on right) and an unfinished Capitol dome in the distant ...