Informal Gardens
The Catalogue House
This octagonal building of stone, topped by two lead squirrels, was completed by 1935 and dedicated to the Blisses' friends Vernon and Charlotte Kellogg. A poem by Mrs. Kellogg is set in lead letters on the inside along the cornice.
After 1940, the Catalogue House was used to display information regarding plantings in the garden. Today it is used to exhibit historic photographs and reproductions of plates from the Library's Rare Book Collection, as well as a copy of Ernest Clegg's 1935 watercolor of the Dumbarton Oaks estate that Mildred Bliss had commissioned as a gift for her husband.
Further Information
The South Front
- South Side of the House
- South Lawn
- The Garden Library and Ribbon Walk
- East Lawn
- R Street Walk
- The Terrior Column and Enclosure
Enclosed Gardens
- The Orangery
- The Green Garden
- The Star Garden
- The North Vista
- The Swimming Pool and Loggia
- The Pebble Garden
- The Beech Terrace
- The Urn Terrace
- The Rose Garden
- The Fountain Terrace
- The Arbor Terrace
- The Box Walk
- The Ellipse