Today,however, it is not the history but the beauty of the gardens at Dumbarton Oaks that captures our attention.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

We will also have links if you would like to take a picture tour of the gardens at Dumbarton Oaks or see what the Indonesian embassy looks like.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

His most successful buildings were small ones, the jewel-like pavilions of the exquisite museum in the gardens at Washington's Dumbarton Oaks, and his own, iconic glass house in Connecticut built on the Miesien model, although Mies himself remarked how un-Miesian it was in its details.

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The hornbeam room, viewed from the house, looks like a classic walled enclosure a hedged room of the type one finds in patrician gardens like Wethersfield in Amenia, New York, or Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.

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