This past weekend offered beautiful fall weather, perfect for our Mid-Atlantic ICAA tour of Dumbarton Oaks arranged by landscape architect and boardmember Jennifer Horn.Dumbarton Oaks has been owned by Harvard University since the early 1940s and hosts a number of their graduate programs on campus. Sections...
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Showing posts with label tours. Show all posts
Saturday, October 8, 2016
Thursday, October 6, 2016
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Why don't we have World's Fairs anymore? They provided us with some of the worlds great monuments such as the Eiffel Tower and the entire City Beautiful movement. If you have any Beaux-Arts styled buildings in your city or town, such as a courthouse, museum, or townhall, you can thank the World's Fair movement! I...
Monday, October 3, 2016
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Last week I had the pleasure of touring the Carnegie Institute of Science with our local branch of the ICAA (these lunch time tours we offer are my favorite aspect of the ICAA). I have been walking past this building on 16th street NW for as long as I've lived in Washington but never knew the glories that were inside!The...
