History Lessons
You don’t always have to learn about history from a text book. Immerse yourself into early-American history, centuries-old gardens, and historic preservation by digging deeper into what we’re learning at Dumbarton House.
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Woman vs. Moth
Integrated Pest Management in a Historic House Museum A few weeks after starting as Archives & Collections Manager at Dumbarton House, I was cleaning the ...
Education
Ninety Years of Dumbarton House!
In 1927, the National Board of The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (NSCDA) approved that the Society should “acquire an old, historic ...
History of the Home
The Hidden Figures of Dumbarton House: Slavery and Servitude within the Nourse family Household
For over a decade interns, volunteers, and staff at Dumbarton House have been researching the question—did the Nourse family have any enslaved workers or indentured ...
Collections
Digitizing the NSCDA Archives
This article contains the work of several interns who have been involved in the ongoing process of digitizing the many records in the archives of ...
History of the Home
Interpretation
Visitors to Dumbarton House return in time to when Joseph Nourse, first Register of the U.S. Treasury, and his wife Maria, made their home here, between 1804 and 1813. ...
History of the Home
Preservation
Historic Preservation Story Preservation projects aimed at returning Dumbarton House to the simplicity of its original Federal design were begun in 1931, three years after ...
