Word: dumbarton
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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...