Category Masonic Trowel and Gavel

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 […]