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The Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill holds a collection of Shakespeare's printed works that includes 82 copies of the 1623 First Folio. Founded by Henry Clay and Emily Jordan Folger, it opened in 1932 in an Art Deco building by Paul Philippe Cret, and a 2024 renovation added public exhibition galleries and gardens.
Dumbarton Oaks is a historic estate in Georgetown that Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss gave to Harvard University in 1940, now a research institute. Visitors see the terraced garden designed by Beatrix Farrand and a museum of Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art, part of it in a 1963 pavilion by Philip Johnson.
Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens is the former home of businesswoman Marjorie Merriweather Post, a 1920s Georgian Revival mansion she bought in 1955; it opened as a museum in 1977. It holds her collection of Russian imperial art, including two Fabergé Easter eggs, and 18th-century French decorative arts, set in 25 acres of gardens with a French parterre and a rose garden.
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