Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss were enthusiastic collectors and judicious patrons of scholarship and the arts. A graduate of Harvard University, Robert Bliss (1875–1962) pursued a distinguished career as an officer and diplomat in the Foreign Service. Mildred Bliss (1879–1969) inherited a fortune from her family's investment in the patent medicine Fletcher's Castoria. Sharing a taste in the art of little-known or under-appreciated cultures, the Blisses developed unique collections with the help of knowledgeable friends and scholarly advisors. They envisioned Dumbarton Oaks as a home of the Humanities, a place of natural serenity and intellectual adventure. The Byzantine Collection opened to the public in 1940. The Music Room, built in 1928, displays works of art of the so-called House Collection, and the Pre-Columbian Collection was installed in 1963 in a wing added to the existing buildings and designed by Philip Johnson.
Dumbarton Oaks
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1703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC 20007, USA
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This place will make you feel like you're in the tea party scene from Alice in Wonderland (beginning scene in the film directed by Tim Burton). There's rows of varied flowers, a large amount of grassy land in the back of the house and a cute, beautiful greenhouse-turned-in-a-tea-party room by the pool. The pebble garden is also beautiful!
