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The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Phillips was the grandson of James H. Laughlin, a banker and co-founder of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.
Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens is a decorative arts museum in Washington, D.C., United States. The former residence of businesswoman, socialite, philanthropist and collector Marjorie Merriweather Post, Hillwood is known for its large decorative arts collection that focuses heavily on the House of Romanov, including two Fabergé eggs.
Artechouse was founded in 2015 by art advocates Sandro Kereselidze and Tatiana Pastukhova. [5] [6] The first gallery opened in 2017 in the Southwest neighborhood of Washington, D.C., occupying a subterranean retail space that was vacant for over 25 years.
The Pierce-Klingle Mansion is a three-story, ten-room house built in the Pennsylvania Dutch farmhouse style. The exterior is composed of blue and grey granite. The walls are 24 inches (61 cm) thick. [3] An addition on the west side of the house was constructed in 1843.
Anderson House, also known as Larz Anderson House, is a Gilded Age mansion located at 2118 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, on Embassy Row in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It now houses the Society of the Cincinnati's international headquarters and a research library on 17th- and 18th-century military and naval history and the art ...
The gallery was established in 1978 [1] [2] [3] by artist and former Washington, D.C. Art Commissioner [4] [5] Margery E. Goldberg. [1] [3] Since its beginning, the gallery has relocated several times [6] [7] [8] and it is currently located at 1429 Iris Street NW, Washington D.C. [1] [3] Goldberg also programs art for the lobby at 1111 Pennsylvania Ave.
The land of Dumbarton Oaks was formerly part of the Rock of Dumbarton grant that Queen Anne made in 1702 to Colonel Ninian Beall (ca. 1625-1717). Around 1801, William Hammond Dorsey (1764–1818) built the first house on the property (the central block of the existing structure) and an orangery.
Designed by Pelz in the Northern Renaissance style, the house was built in 1900-01 for Commander Frederick Augustus Miller (1842–1909). Because Miller had been a U.S. Navy officer during the U.S. Civil War the house includes a number of maritime motifs, [2] [3]: 343 including the statue of a ship's cat on the ledge facing Massachusetts Avenue ...