It has to be Harvard U.............



In the 1920s and 1930s, the masterful landscape architect Beatrix Farrand took this natural area and created a private idyll of meadows, woodlands, paths and 18 decorative ponds, dams and other features as a “wild” counterpoint to her creation of formal terraced gardens above it. In the 1940s, Robert and Mildred Bliss gave the mansion and its more formal gardens toHarvard University, and Dumbarton Oaks as we know it became a center of culture and scholarship. The outlying, designed hinterland passed to the National Park Service, stewards of the greater Rock Creek Park. Over the years, Dumbarton Oaks Park has been used by neighborhood joggers, commuters and dog walkers.