Dumbarton Oaks
Dumbarton Oaks The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection is housed in a nineteenth-century Federal-style house built on the crest of a wooded valley in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. The name combines a reference to the original great oaks on the site, several of which are still standing, with the eighteenth-century name Dumbarton, taken from the Rock of Dumbarton in ...
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