Hillwood Museum & Gardens is a decorative arts museum in Washington, D.C., USA. It is the former home and garden of Marjorie Merriweather Post.
As she arranged her divorce from her third husband Joseph E. Davies, Post initiated a search for a new house. She wanted a stately home with fifteen-foot ceilings, sited on a large thickly wooded spot. After the divorce was final, she bought Arbremont, a Georgian Colonial estate in northwest Washington on...
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Hillwood Museum & Gardens is a decorative arts museum in Washington, D.C., USA. It is the former home and garden of Marjorie Merriweather Post.
As she arranged her divorce from her third husband Joseph E. Davies, Post initiated a search for a new house. She wanted a stately home with fifteen-foot ceilings, sited on a large thickly wooded spot. After the divorce was final, she bought Arbremont, a Georgian Colonial estate in northwest Washington on the edge of Rock Creek Park, rechristening it Hillwood, a name she had also used for her former property in Brookville, Long Island.
Arbremont, with its 36 rooms, had been built in the 1920s by Mrs. Delos A. Blodgett for her daughter, Helen Blodgett Erwin. After Post acquired it from the Erwins, she hired the architect Alexander McIlvaine to gut and rebuild its interior. The renovations, which included moving the library doors to frame a view of the Washington Monument, were completed in 1956. Post featured the Russian art she had acquired as...
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