Category Henry Adams

Elizabeth Hoyt & Gladys Rice, Landscape Gardeners

March 28, 2015 · by · in 'Eastover' Long Island, Arnold Arboretum, Beatrix Farrand, British Embassy Gardens, British Embassy Washington, Centre Island New York, Charles Sprague Sargent, Dumbarton Oaks, Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Gladys Brooks, Gladys Rice, Gladys Saltonstall, Henry Adams, Lady Lindsay, Robert Woods Bliss · Leave a comment

What happened to the landscape gardening firm of Hoyt and Rice? Why didn’t the two mentees of Beatrix (Jones) Farrand, Charles Sprague Sargent and the staff at the Arnold Arboretum ever start their planned business together? While a footnote in the story of the landscape of the British Embassy, Washington, one wonders if the partnership […]

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 […]

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, […]