Category Elizabeth Cameron

Henry Adams and Lady Lindsay in Washington

January 31, 2015 · by · 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 […]

The End of the Lindsay Era and the Beginning of the War Years in the Embassy’s Gardens

March 1, 2014 · by · in Beatrix Farrand, British Ambassador's Residence Washington, British Embassy Gardens, British Embassy Washington, Dumbarton Oaks, Dumbarton Oaks Park, Elizabeth Cameron, Frederick Brooke, Lady Lindsay, Lord Lothian, Marquess of Lothian, Massachusetts Avenue, Mildred Barnes Bliss, Robert Woods Bliss, Ronald Lindsay, Stepleton House · Leave a comment

Ronald Lindsay retired from the British Ambassadorship in Washington and set sail for England on 30 August 1939, landing just after war was declared on Germany. Elizabeth Lindsay never saw her husband again. His work and failing health confined him to his country for the duration. He died in 1945 and was buried next to […]

Lindsay’s Groundwork for the Gardens

January 16, 2014 · by · in British Ambassador's Residence Washington, British Embassy Gardens, British Embassy Washington, Dumbarton Oaks, Elizabeth Cameron, Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, Frederick Brooke, Harry Wardman, Henry Adams, Lady Lindsay, Mildred Barnes Bliss, Sir Edwin Lutyens · Leave a comment

With the return of the diplomatic corps and the beginning of the fall social season of 1930 in Washington, the press was filled with reports of the new British Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue. The Ambassador’s Residence had already been put to work: the first large party to be held there was that August for 600 […]

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, […]