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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. TUDORD_181130_04.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2018_DC_Tudor_PlaceDH DC -- Tudor Place -- Dower House (13 photos from 2018)
2. TUDOR_181130_003_STITCH.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2018_DC_Tudor_Place DC -- Tudor Place (43 photos from 2018)
3. TUDOR_110403_002.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2011_DC_Tudor_Place DC -- Tudor Place (41 photos from 2011)
4. TUDOR_110403_011.JPG: South Lawn: In 1816, your view from this sweeping lawn included the bustling tobacco port of Georgetown, the Potomac River, and, to the east, the growing city of Washington, DC. Then a hay field, sheep and cows grazed on the lawn. By the beginning of the 1900s, the view was starkly different with a series of row houses build along the surrounding streets. For 200 years, the sloping south lawn has maintained its pastoral, naturalistic elements in harmony with the architecture of the house.
5. TUDOR_110403_021.JPG: DC -- Tudor Place
6. TUDOR_110403_065.JPG: Garage: In the 1800s, a barn stood to the right of the building you see today. The garage, the left hand portion of the building ahead, was built in 1913-1914 to house the family's automobiles and to provide an apartment for the chauffeur. The last owner's 1919 Pierce-Arrow still resides in the garage. The right hand side of the building was added in 1968 to house an artist's studio and a bomb shelter for the last owner. The two small white buildings are, on the left, the restored Smokehouse, moved from its original location, and, on the right, a utility shed built by the last owner.
7. TUDOR_110403_071.JPG: 1919 Pierce-Arrow Roadster Model 48-B5: The chassis of this automobile was purchased from the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company for $5,441.25. The body was custom made by Brewster & Company, New York for $3,041.45; this was a logical choice since Brewster had built the Peter family's horse-drawn carriages since their founding in 1810. Brewster incorporated a new seat-steering wheel design from Rolls Royce to accommodate Armistead Peter 3rd's height, and German silver bell-shaped headlights, also designed by Rolls Royce. The entire Peter family favored Pierce-Arrow, they owned at least five of them, including a Pierce-Arrow Town Brougham purchased the $8,958 in 1920 b Armistead Peter, Jr. A particular favorite of Armistead Peter 3rd, he maintained this Pierce-Arrow Roadster from the time of its purchase in 1919 until his death in 1983, driving it 37,000 miles.
8. TUDOR_110403_122.JPG: Interesting back of the statue
9. TUDOR_110403_161.JPG: North Garden: Imagine you are an invited guest to Tudor Place in the early 1800s. Approaching the house down the center path from what was Road Street (now R Street), you passed large oak trees, a frame house where enslaved seamstress Annie Gray lived, apple and pear orchards, vegetable patches, and a formal flower garden. In view was the barn where cows, sheep and other small farm animals were stabled. By the end of the 1800s, the upper portion of the land was sold but the center path remained lined with foxglove, Florentine tulips and other flowering perennials. In the 1900s, the North Garden developed into the ornamental garden you see today.
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Wikipedia Description: Tudor Place
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Tudor Place is a mansion in Washington, D.C. that was originally the home of Thomas Peter and his wife, Martha Parke Custis Peter, the step-granddaughter of George Washington, who left her the $8,000 in his will that was used to purchase the property in 1805. The property, comprising one city block on the crest of Georgetown Heights, had an excellent view of the Potomac River.

History:

From the 1799 will of George Washington, Martha Parke Custis Peter, the granddaughter of Martha Washington and step-granddaughter of George Washington, received $8,000 (equivalent to $122,000 in present day terms). Her husband, Thomas Peter, used her $8,000 inheritance from Washington to purchase the property that would become Tudor Place in 1805. They contracted with Dr. William Thornton, who also designed the United States Capitol as well as The Octagon House, to design Tudor Place. The decorations included four chair-cushions embroidered by Martha Washington (June 2, 1731 – May 22, 1802) in 1801 and described as "executed upon coarse canvas in a design of shells, done in brown and yellow wools, the high lights being flecked in gold-colored silk" and included a decorative cover for a bed whose trimmings also were embroidered by Martha Washington.

On September 28, 1811, the mother of Martha Parke Custis Peter, Eleanor Calvert, age 56 an a prominent member of the Calvert family of Maryland, and the daughter-in-law of Martha Dandridge Washington and the stepdaughter-in-law of George Washington, died at Tudor Place. Martha Peter's noted in a February 15, 1812 letter to a friend, Eliza Susan Quincy (1798–1884), how important it was to Martha that she was able to spend the last "fortnight" of her mother's life with her mother at Tudor Place to render attentions that could not be paid elsewhere. In March 1813, after on resigning his seat in the United States Congress, U.S. educator and political figure Josiah Quincy III and his ...More...
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