Dumbarton Oaks Garden - Washington, DC
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The pebble garden at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC appears on this 2020 U.S. postage stamp.
Waymark Code: WM18F08
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Date Posted: 07/21/2023
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The historic Washington DC estate known as Dumbarton Oaks, was the creation of Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss. Robert W. Bliss was a career diplomat with the Foreign Service, including a six-year stint as U.S. Ambassador to Argentina. Their money came from Mildred’s daddy who had invested heavily in Fletcher’s Castoria, of all things, and when he died, left everything to his wife and daughter.
The gardens were designed, beginning in the early 1920s, by noted landscape architect Beatrix Farrand. Working closely with Mildred Bliss, Farrand designed every aspect of the extensive gardens over the next thirty years. Part of the original design was a tennis court surrounded by wisteria-draped walls. Not being big on tennis, Mildred eventually had the area converted into the pebble garden that’s present today in the late 1950s. It was designed by Ruth Havey, who considers it her masterpiece. It’s this pebble garden that’s portrayed on the stamp, one of a set of ten issued in 2020 commemorating American gardens.
In the 1940s, the Blisses donated the property to Harvard University to be used as a research institute for the humanities. There were certain stipulations such as that the gardens be maintained and kept open to the public as they had been since 1939. Today, besides the gardens, there is a museum housing a fine collection of Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art.
Stamp Issuing Country: United States
Date of Issue: 13-May-2020
Denomination: (55c)
Color: multicolored
Stamp Type: Single Stamp
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