Beatrix Farrand’s Dumbarton Oaks

Dumbarton Oaks Park Lover's Lane and R Street NW, Washington

(DC) (National Park Service) Beatrix Farrand is considered the first commercially successful woman landscape architect in the United States. Dumbarton Oaks Park in Georgetown is one of her enduring legacies. Come explore her creation with park rangers and learn how her design philosophy and unique vision helped shape this landscape, how that vision was nearly lost, and how the NPS ...