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THE TABARD INN, 1922
A ménage à trois of brick townhouses on the 1700 block of N Street NW, the Tabard Inn is marking 100 years since its launch in 1922 as a small hotel and tea room. Founder Marie Willoughby Rogers chose the name Tabard Inn to evoke the hostelry in Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales.” The Queen Anne-style buildings to either side of Italian Renaissancestyle 1739 N St. NW were incorporated in the years that followed, creating a charmingly quirky interior of staircases, passageways and odd-sized rooms. During World War II, the Tabard provided officers’ quarters for the WAVES, the women’s branch of the U.S. Naval Reserve. After Rogers died in 1970, Fritzi and Edward Cohen — a public-interest lawyer and Capitol Hill staffer, respectively — rescued the Tabard from proposed demolition, reopening it in 1974. Three years later, the inn’s restaurant was reborn under Margee Wright and Nora Pouillon (Pouillon proceeded to pioneer organic cuisine at Restaurant Nora nearby). The oldest hotel in the District continuously owned and operated by women, the Tabard Inn was added to the D.C. Inventory of Historic Sites and the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. Tabard Inn.
Before becoming DCAR, the association today representing more than 2800 realtors in D.C. was once known as the Washington, D.C. Association of Realtors. They then combined with the Montgomery County Association of Realtors to form the Greater Capital Area Association of Realtors or WDCAR. The NAR is one of the only associations in D.C. to afford a state status. 100 years ago, they became the District of Columbia Association of Realtors to reflect the emphasis of the state status. “We call ourselves the voice of real estate in D.C.,” DCAR says.
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION, 1921
The “first museum of modern art” in the United States and one of D.C.’s hidden gallery treasures, The Phillips Collection opened to the public in 1921 in the Dupont circle Georgian mansion of the Phillips family, of steel and banking renown. Surviving founder Duncan Phillips (1866-1966) – author of The Enchantment of Art, 1914 -- gained a passion for modern art from his European travels, trips to N.Y.’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and D.C.’s Corcoran Gallery of Art. Creating a museum in the nation’s capital where “one could capture the art of the past and the present on equal terms,” served as one of his guiding objectives.
GLEN ECHO PARK DENTZEL CAROUSEL, 1922
The Glen Echo Carousel celebrated 100 years from the spring of 2021 through spring 2022. The carousel was installed in 2021 by the Dentzel Carousel Company of Germantown, Pennsylvania. The carousel is one of only 135 functioning antique carousels in the U.S. and one of a few still standing in its original location. The carousel is known as a “menagerie style,” as it has a variety of animals to ride on (including rabbits, ostriches, a giraffe and more).
THE SMITHSONIAN’S FREER GALLERY OF ART, 1923
The “first museum on the National Mall campus,” The Freer Gallery – now the National Museum of Asian Art -- opened to the public close to 100 years ago in 1923. In addition to holding over 45,000 objects of Asian art from the Neolithic Era to the present, the Florentine Renaissance-style gallery holds a “significant group of American works of art largely dating to the late 19th century.” The gallery houses the “world’s largest collection of diverse works by James McNeill Whistler, including the famed Peacock Room.” In 1890 Charles Lang Freer paid an unannounced call to Whistler’s London studio and the two struck up a longtime friendship. Freer ultimately collected more than 1000 of Whistler’s works.
Sanford Robinson Gifford Jasper Francis Cropsey
Alfred Thompson Bricher George Inness
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Richmond Getaway Guide
BY KATHERINE SCHWARTZ
For your next getaway weekend, take an under two-hour drive down I-95 to explore a city where centuries of history meet up-andcoming art and buzzworthy food scene — the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Drive down Monument Avenue and explore the changing history of the city from its Confederate past to its revitalized present. Admire the townhouses of Richmond’s most historic and sought-after neighborhood. Stop for a smoothie at the North End Juice Co takeout window, set against colorful murals by local artists in the Museum District. Be sure to browse the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, one of the largest art museums in North America and now famous for its provocative original Kehinde Wiley statue, “Rumors of War.” Sit in the green garden for a picnic under Stellas, Shrimp Ouzo, fava purée, tomato-ouzo cream, in Richmond
a Spanish sculpture, “Chloe,” or perch by the pond with a coffee from the Jazz Cafe. If you go in the evening, get a drink or dinner at the rooftop restaurant, Amuse, which offers an optimal view of the sunset over the city.
For shopping, be sure to stop at Nellie & George, a high-end boutique at the epicenter of the West End, between Libbie and Grove Avenue. Then cruise through Carytown, Richmond’s main drag, complete with a mixed bag of clothing stores, ice cream, and the famous French Can Can Brasserie. Stop at Roan, a luxury boutique, and Gearharts Fine Chocolates for Virginian scrumptious chocolate treats next door.
Also, have a long lunch or dinner at Stella’s
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