Monthly Archives: January 2015
Henry Adams and Lady Lindsay in Washington
January 31, 2015 · by A History of The Gardens of the Ambassador's Residence, British Embassy, Washington · in Ambassador James Bryce, Beatrix Farrand, British Ambassador's Residence Washington, British Embassy Washington, Dumbarton Oaks, Elizabeth Cameron, Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, Harry Wardman, Henry Adams, James Bryce 1st Viscount Bryce, Lady Lindsay, Massachusetts Avenue, Mildred Barnes Bliss, Robert Woods Bliss, Ronald Lindsay, Sir Edwin Lutyens · 1 Comment
Within the intersecting circles of the story of the British Embassy, Henry Adams is the center point in its early history. His beloved home across from the White House brings together several elements of this Landscape of a Washington Place: the Embassy’s first landscape gardener (Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, later Lady Lindsay); Beatrix Jones (later Farrand […]
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