Tregaron (estate)

Tregaron is a twenty acre estate in Washington, D. C..

The property, originally part of a larger estate, "Twin Oaks", was bought by Gardiner Greene Hubbard, founder of the National Geographic Society, in the 1880s, and named "The Causeway". His daughter Mabel married Alexander Graham Bell, and inherited the property, which she sold to James Parmelee, a Cleveland financier. He hired Charles Adams Platt to design a country house for the property. Platt employed Ellen Biddle Shipman as landscape architect for the project.

After Parmelee's death, the estate was purchased by Joseph E. Davies, American Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and his wife, Marjorie Merriweather Post, who named it "Tregaron" after Davies's mother's ancestral home in Wales.

After Davies's death in 1958, the Washington International School purchased six of the twenty acres, and the Tregaron Limited Partnership, an Israeli corporation, purchased the remaining fourteen acres.

In 2006 an agreement was reached by which thirteen acres of the estate would be conserved as open green space.

References

* [http://tregaronconservancy.org/about.html The Tregaron Conservancy]