Thursday, May 9, 2013
Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy tackles both natural and invasive threats to the original wilderness garden.
The reverence in Rebecca Trafton's voice and the joy with which she walks about Dumbarton Oaks Park imbues the 27-acre naturalistic park in Georgetown with a sacredness often reserved for places of worship. During a 90-minute tour of the park last week, she fretted over a dropped tissue, unleashed dogs and the emerging menace of yet more invasive weeds, creeping their way up a dogwood tree, the way a church keeper might obsess over the cleanliness of a robe or the polish of a chalice. Trafton, a landscape architect and founder of the board of directors for Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy, has made it her mission to stir within others the feelings she has for this small section of Rock Creek Park and to convert those feelings into action. …
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Dumbarton Oaks Park
3060 R St NW, Washington, DC
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Join the Rock Creek Extreme Cleanup on Saturday, April 6.
Last year, more than 14,000 volunteers across five states hauled 262 tons of trash out of the Potomac River watershed during the annual Rock Creek Extreme Cleanup, Tom Smerling of the Rock Creek Conservancy posted on Patch. This year, there will be volunteers at more than 40 sites along Rock Creek (see the map at Rock Creek Conservancy) picking up trash on Saturday, April 6, from 9 a.m. to noon. Join them at one of two places year you: Click on a site—Rock Creek Mouth or Dumbarton Oaks—to see the registration page, which includes directions, parking and additional details. Walk-ins are welcome, but registering in advance helps everything go more smoothly on clean-up day. Supervised children and pets are welcome at some locations, check in …
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
The Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy and the National Park service are funding a program to slow stormwater runoff and help prevent further erosion.
Though Dumbarton Oaks Park, a 27-acre naturalistic park in north Georgetown, was designed to be a natural woodlands setting, nature—in the form of stormwater runoff and erosion—has been harsh on the park. The Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy is working with the Rock Creek Park branch of the National Park Service to try to undo the damage and prevent future damage. Dumbarton Oaks Park was once part of the Dumbarton Oaks Estate, which belonged to Ambassador Robert and Mildred Woods Bliss. The two secured the services of revered early landscape architect Beatrix Farrand to create formal and informal gardens. Later the couple donated their mansion and formal gardens to Harvard University and the remaining 27-acres to the National Park Service…
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Dumbarton Oaks Park
3060 R St NW, Washington, DC
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Saturday, September 15, 2012
The Landscape Architect’s Guide to Washington, D.C. highlights more than 75 sites in the District and Arlington, Va.
Eight Georgetown sites are featured prominently in the recently released Landscape Architect’s Guide to Washington, D.C. The new guide profiles 75 historic, modern and contemporary landscapes in D.C. and Arlington, Va. "D.C.’s vibrant public realm didn’t just magically appear but was carefully designed over the years, and is continually evolving, through interactions among elected leaders, communities and landscape architects,” said Nancy Somerville, executive vice president and CEO of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), in a press release. Somerville and ASLA hope the guide will inspire the estimated 19 million tourists who visit the region annually. The information is organized into 16 tours spread across D.C.'s four …
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Dumbarton Oaks
1703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC
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C&O Canal
1057 Thomas Jefferson St NW, Washington, DC
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Georgetown Waterfront Park
3100 K St NW, Washington, DC
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Anne Symmes
10:30 am on Thursday, May 9, 2013
Beatrix Farrand's work is so important to our national heritage. Hurray for Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy for working to save this legacy! more ›