Category Ambassador & Lady Caccia

The Time of Changes and Commemorations in the Embassy Gardens

April 2, 2014 · by · in Ambassador & Lady Caccia, Ambassador Patrick Dean, British Ambassador's Residence Washington, British Embassy Gardens, British Embassy Washington, Bryce Park Cathedral Heights, David Ormsby-Gore, Harry Wardman, Lord Harlech, Massachusetts Avenue, Perry Wheeler, Sir Edwin Lutyens · 1 Comment

What became the tumultuous decade of the 1960s at the Washington Embassy began with landscape gardener Perry Wheeler and Lady Caccia working to revitalize the gardens while enclosing them for additional privacy and protection. At the start of 1960, plantings (magnolias, hollies, viburnum, aucuba, cherry laurel, blue spruce) were put in to provide a dense […]

The Embassy Gardens in Post-War Recovery

March 16, 2014 · by · in Ambassador & Lady Caccia, Ambassador & Lady Franks, Ambassdor Makins & Lady Makins, British Ambassador's Residence Washington, British Embassy Gardens, British Embassy Washington, Henri Blanluet, Lady Lindsay, Lord Inverchapel, Massachusetts Avenue, Mildred Barnes Bliss, Perry Wheeler, Robert Woods Bliss, Royal Garden Party, Sir Edwin Lutyens · Leave a comment

The Immediate Post-War Years The monarch’s birthday celebration in the gardens of British Embassy, last held in 1938, was revived in June 1947. The ambassador who greeted guests entering through the wooden Lutyens garden gate was the unconventional, if not eccentric, Archibald Clark Kerr, 1st Baron Inverchapel. Wearing white linens, he presided over a more […]