Category Edith Wharton

Before their Washington Gardens: Americans in Paris

January 9, 2014 · by · in Beatrix Farrand, British Embassy Gardens, Dumbarton Oaks, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Cameron, Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, Henry Adams, Lady Lindsay, Mildred Barnes Bliss, Robert Woods Bliss, Stepleton House · 2 Comments

Even before her marriage to the diplomat Ronald Lindsay, Elizabeth Hoyt occupied the same worldly and cultivated social spheres as her close friends and future neighbors in Washington, Robert and Mildred Bliss of Dumbarton Oaks. Along with Hoyt’s aunt Elizabeth Cameron and the historian Henry Adams, they were bound by friendships formed in Paris and […]

The Education and Career of an Embassy Gardener

January 1, 2014 · by · in Ambassador James Bryce, Beatrix Farrand, British Ambassador's Residence Washington, British Embassy Gardens, British Embassy Washington, Dumbarton Oaks, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Cameron, Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, Henry Adams, Lady Lindsay, Mildred Barnes Bliss, Robert Woods Bliss · Leave a comment

Introduction The wife of the first Ambassador to live in the new Massachusetts Avenue British Embassy happened to be a trained landscape architect and an American, Lady Lindsay (1885–1954). The extent of her influence on the Ambassador’s Residence has been little known and unexamined, particularly her relationship with the grand estate practically bordering the Embassy, […]