BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Cleveland Park -- Historic Twin Oaks estate

DC -- Cleveland Park -- Historic Twin Oaks estate:

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Description of Pictures: Photographed during a Cultural Tourism DC-sponsored tour of the estate.

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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. 2OAKS_090919_207.JPG: The "Happy Birthday Wishes" scroll came from Empress Dowager's collection. Emperor Kuang Hsu (1875-1908) painted the "celestial peaches" which are symbols of long life.
2. 2OAKS_090919_255.JPG: One of the original twin oaks
3. 2OAKS_090919_312.JPG: Photograph by Gilbert H. Grosvenor
4. 2OAKS_090919_511.JPG: Gardiner Greene Hubbard, First President of the National Geographic Society (1888-1897) and Mrs. Hubbard seated on the veranda at Twin Oaks, their Washington D.C. home. Dr. Hubbard, a direct descendant of the Rev. William Hubbard, a Colonial historian, was a generous promoter of education of the death. With Thomas Sanders, he financed the telephone experiments of Alexander Graham Bell. Mrs. Hubbard, before her marriage, was Miss Gertrude Mercer McCurdy of New York City and Newport.
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Description of Subject Matter: The Republic of China's (Taiwan) Twin Oaks Estate:

Home to Nine ROC Ambassadors, A National Historic Site, and A Symbol of Friendship with the United States

Situated atop a hill on a parcel of land once owned by a one-legged Revolutionary War general is a 26-room mansion that served as the official residence of nine ambassadors from the Republic of China (ROC) between 1937 and 1978 and which still belongs to the ROC government in Taiwan.

1888-1937:

The mansion and the 18.1 acres of land it lies on comprise the historic Twin Oaks estate. Over the last six decades, countless dignitaries and friends have met with ROC ambassadors and representatives at Twin Oaks to chart the course of friendship and cooperation between the two countries through good times and bad.

Considered the largest privately owned estate in Washington, D.C., Twin Oaks, which is nearly the size of the White House compound, was placed on the National Register for Historic Sites on Feb. 5, 1986 in recognition of its storied past and architectural significance.

The land upon which Twin Oaks rests belonged originally to Uriah Forrest, an American general in the Revolutionary War, a member of the first Continental Congress, and one of Maryland's first delegates to the U.S. Congress. In 1888, his descendent, Mrs. Osceola Green, sold the property to Mr. Gardiner Green Hubbard, scion of a prominent Boston family, progressive public servant, founder and first president of the National Geographic Society.

Mr. Hubbard then commissioned one of America's leading architects at the time, the Paris-trained Richard Allen to build a summer retreat for the Hubbard family, which was then living on Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. For $30,000 dollars, Mr. Allen designed and constructed a 26-room house in the early Colonial (Georgian) Revival style and modeled after a New England frame summer house. In fact, Twin Oaks is the only remaining example of that style in the District of Columbia.

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Wikipedia Description: Twin Oaks (Washington, D.C.)
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The Twin Oaks is a 17-acre estate located in the Cleveland Park neighborhood in Washington, D.C., United States.

Architecture

The historic residence, completed in 1888, was designed by Francis Allen for Gardiner Green Hubbard, founder and first president of the National Geographic Society and father-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell.

History

Twin Oaks was listed on the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites in 1983, the National Register of Historic Places listings in western Washington, D.C. in 1986, and is a contributing property in the Cleveland Park Historic District. The estate was the residence of nine Republic of China ambassadors to the United States from 1937 until 1979, when the United States switched diplomatic recognition to the People's Republic of China.

The Government of the Republic of China, currently represented by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Washington in place of an official embassy, continues to own the property and uses it for official receptions.

On 1 January 2015, the flag of the Republic of China was raised for the first time since the end of diplomatic relations in 1979. The ceremony (protested by the People's Republic of China) was held by Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U.S., a move symbolizing significant progress in Taiwan–United States relations. Representative Shen Lyu-shun said that they not only returned, but they did it with dignity, respect and honor.

The United States Department of States spokesperson responded at the daily press briefing that "The ceremony is not consistent with U.S. policy. We remain fully committed to the U.S. One China Policy, based on the three communiques and the Taiwan Relations Act. No U.S. Government personnel attended the event in any capacity."
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