Category Ambassador Esmé Howard

A Trowel for the British Embassy but not in the Gardens

March 26, 2014 · by · in Ambassador Esmé Howard, British Ambassador's Residence Washington, British Embassy Gardens, British Embassy Washington, Frederick Brooke, George Washington Trowel, Harry Wardman, Masonic Trowel and Gavel, Sir Edwin Lutyens · 1 Comment

It did not make mention in any of the newspaper reports of the laying of the cornerstone of the Lutyens-designed Embassy on 3 June 1928, but the “Washington trowel” was employed in the ceremony.  Ambassador Esmé Howard, standing with American architect Frederick Brooke, builder Harry Wardman and some of the diplomatic community but mostly with […]

Lutyens in Washington

November 1, 2013 · by · in Ambassador Esmé Howard, British Ambassador's Residence Washington, British Embassy Gardens, British Embassy Washington, Cyril A. Farey, Frederick Brooke, Harry Wardman, Lady Lindsay, Naval Observatory, Normanstone Park, Rock Creek Park, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Sir Lionel Earle · Leave a comment

Nine perspective drawings by long-time Lutyens’s collaborator Cyril A. Farey for the proposed new British Embassy were exhibited on 5 February 1927 to the United States Commission of Fine Arts. Meeting in the New York office of architect William Delano, the established American professionals comprising or acting as consultants to this committee (Cass Gilbert, Charles […]