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Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., is a historic estate and Harvard research institution that combines a mansion, museum, library, and celebrated gardens with scholarship in Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, and garden and landscape studies. Its site traces from a 1702 colonial land grant to a house built around 1801, later enlarged and known as The Oaks; John C. Calhoun lived there from 1822 to 1829. After Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss acquired it in 1920, they reshaped it into a major cultural property. Given to Harvard in 1940, it also hosted the 1944 conference whose proposals helped lead to the United Nations Charter.
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