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Twin Oaks (Chinese: 雙橡園; pinyin: Shuāng Xiàng Yuán) is a 17-acre estate located in the Cleveland Park neighborhood in Washington, D.C., United States.It was the residence of nine Republic of China ambassadors to the United States before the United States broke off diplomatic ties with the Republic of China on Taiwan in 1979.
A native of Seattle, Washington, Kinkade helped found Twin Oaks in 1967, when she was in her mid 30s, after a career as a "bored secretary" and a brief stint at a cooperative house in Washington, D.C. In the 1970s, Kinkade left Twin Oaks to move to Missouri to help found East Wind Community, an offshoot of Twin Oaks. [1]
Twin Oaks (Wyoming, Ohio), listed on the NRHP in Ohio; Twin Oaks (Washington, D.C.), listed on the NRHP in Washington, D.C. Twin Oaks Plantation, a house on the National Register of Historic Places near Eutaw, Alabama; Stark's Twin Oaks Airpark, A privately owned, public use airport in Hillsboro Oregon
The property, originally part of a larger estate, "Twin Oaks", was bought in 1888 by Gardiner Greene Hubbard, founder of the National Geographic Society, and named "The Causeway". His daughter Mabel married Alexander Graham Bell and inherited the property, which she sold to James Parmelee, a Cleveland financier. Parmelee hired Charles Adams ...
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Giac Hoang Buddhist Temple on 16th Street NW. Sixteenth Street Heights is one of the most demographically diverse neighborhoods in the city. [citation needed] The homes along 16th Street and its surrounding corridor are primarily owned by affluent residents, while the commercial corridors of 14th Street and Georgia Avenue cater to middle- and lower-middle-class Hispanic and African American ...
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Twin Oaks Community is an ecovillage [2] and intentional community of about one hundred people [3] living on 450 acres (1.8 km 2) in Louisa County, Virginia. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is a member of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities . [ 6 ]