Category Oak Hill Cemetery

Plan of the Embassy Gardens and Maps of the Area

August 3, 2014 · by · in British Ambassador's Residence Washington, British Embassy Gardens, British Embassy Washington, Dumbarton Oaks, Dumbarton Oaks Park, Embassy of Denmark, Embassy of Italy, Massachusetts Avenue, Naval Observatory, Normanstone Park, Oak Hill Cemetery, Rock Creek Park, The Center for Hellenic Studies · Leave a comment

For reference to earlier and future posts, here is a master plan of the entire grounds of the Ambassador’s Residence: And for the points of interest in the story of the landscape of the British Embassy, including Normanstone Park and Normanstone Drive, Oak Hill Cemetery, Dumbarton Oaks, the Naval Observatory, Rock Creek Park: At the […]

What Remains of the Nineteenth Century

October 13, 2013 · by · in British Embassy Gardens, Dumbarton Oaks, Dumbarton Oaks Park, Herman Hollerith, John Adlum, Normanstone, Normanstone Drive, Normanstone Park, Oak Hill Cemetery, Robert Barnard, Rock Creek Park · Leave a comment

Not much remains of the earlier pastoral landscape. Located most likely where Lutyens’s complex, along with Eric Bedford’s New Chancery (1955-1962), now dominates, all traces of Normanstone’s buildings are gone, surviving only in photographs, maps and the family records. However there are echoes of Normanstone’s sloping terrain, streams, farm roads, orchards and that gardening was […]