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

In nineteen forty-four, delegates from the United States, Britain,the Soviet Union and China met at Dumbarton Oaks.

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In Georgetown we stop at a mansion that holds the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

Is there indication for some new round of Bretton Woods, Dumbarton Oaks revisited, some rethinking of how the nation, of how the great economies of the world inter react?

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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.

WSJ: Modern Pastoral

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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