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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite contract disputes that delayed renovations at the Harvard-owned Dumbarton Oaks research facility in Washington, D.C., the non-profit center celebrated the opening of its new gallery Thursday night, five months after it was expected to be completed...

Author: By Johanna B. Berkman, | Title: Harvard Celebrates Gallery Opening | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

...renovations, which began in August 1987 and cost $3 million, were intended to create space for library stacks and for the Byzantine art collection, according to Susan Boyd, the curator of Dumbarton Oaks' museum collections...

Author: By Johanna B. Berkman, | Title: Harvard Celebrates Gallery Opening | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

Boyd added that the center's security system was improved and noted that the additional space will help separate the Dumbarton Oaks' research areas from public areas...

Author: By Johanna B. Berkman, | Title: Harvard Celebrates Gallery Opening | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

...ever sees anything off the beaten track in Washington, because there is so much on it, but if you want to escape crowds, check out the Harvard-owned Dumbarton Oaks. This serene Georgetown park has a museum of Byzantine Art and a HOLLIS-listed library. Or take a walk in Rock Creek Park, a sinuous strip of hilly forest in the heart of the city...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Plenty of Marble in the Capital | 2/18/1989 | See Source »

...adjacent hill to Dumbarton Oaks sits a spartan, classical one-story structure known as The Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies. The institution was founded in 1961 with a grant from the Old Dominion Foundation to provide a locus for studies in the Classical Greek tradition, reversing what was then seen as a general movement away from the study of the Classics...

Author: By David M. Lazarus, | Title: The Sun Seldom Sets On Harvard's Empire | 3/25/1987 | See Source »

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