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Tudor Place Historic House & Garden’s special installation and guided tour “Ancestral Spaces: People of African Descent at Tudor Place,” will now be open through Oct. 13. “Ancestral Spaces” tells the stories of the individuals and families of African descent who lived and worked at Tudor Place.
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Press Release
April 16, 2024
Washington, DC — Tudor Place Historic House & Garden’s special installation and guided tour Ancestral Spaces: People of African Descent at Tudor Place, will now be open through October 13. Ancestral Spaces tells the stories of the individuals and families of African descent who lived and worked at Tudor Place.
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press@tudorplace.org | 202-580-7323
Press Release
April 2, 2024
Washington, DC — Tudor Place Historic House & Garden will be unveiling the revitalized mower house with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, April 12. The celebration recognizes improvements made to this service building, including space and utility upgrades to increase grounds work efficiency and support sustainability efforts. As part of the ribbon-cutting ceremony, artifacts related to long-time gardener, John Luckett, who worked at the site for forty-four years from 1862 to 1906, will be on display. The life and work of John Luckett is also on view to visitors during the Ancestral Spaces: People of African Descendant of Tudor Place, a special installation and guided tour.
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From “Ancestral Spaces: People of African Descent at Tudor Place,” an exhibition at Tudor Place.Tudor Place opened an exhibition entitled, “Ancestral Spaces: People of African Descent at Tudor Place,” on Feb. 6, timed for Black History Month. It is proving so popular that it will likely continue beyond its planned April closing.
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A new installation intended to uncover the lives of the generations of free and enslaved people who lived and worked at the Tudor Place, a historic Georgetown property that now serves as a museum, opened Feb. 6.
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From Ancestral Spaces at Tudor Place; Credit: Darrow MontgomeryThe temporary installation and guided tour pieces together fragmented histories of both the enslaved and free Black people who cared for the historic house—a successful first step in telling the full story.
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Ann Chinn, a descendant of Hannah Pope, poses for a photoAnn Chinn was invited to the Tudor Place for her daughter’s classmate’s birthday party years ago. When the child’s mother asked if she needed directions to the historic home, Chinn responded, “No, that was our family home.” The mother looked upon her strangely; she didn’t know Chinn is the descendant of a multigenerational legacy of enslaved African women at Tudor Place.
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Press Release
January 16, 2024
Washington, DC — Tudor Place Historic House & Garden presents Ancestral Spaces: People of African Descent at Tudor Place, a special installation and guided tour that explores the lives of individuals and families of African descent who lived and worked at Tudor Place.
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Contact
press@tudorplace.org | 202-580-7323
Listen to an interview with Mark Hudson, introducing “Ancestral Spaces: People of African Descent at Tudor Place,” the special new installation and guided tour.
An original camp stool from the Tudor Place Collection, which travelled with George Washington during the Revolutionary War, will be a part of an upcoming exhibition “Witness to Revolution: The Unlikely Travels of Washington’s Tent” at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, PA. It will be reunited with other artifacts from Washington’s life during the Revolutionary War such as his foldable field bedstead, a silver camp cup and, of course, George Washington’s War Tent.
The camp stool will return to Tudor Place once the exhibition concludes on January 5, 2025. Be sure to visit the Museum of the American Revolution starting President’s Day Weekend to learn more about this essential part of American History.
Read the article “Upcoming Special Exhibition “Witness to Revolution: The Unlikely Travels of Washington’s Tent” Opens at the Museum of the American Revolution on Presidents Day Weekend, Feb. 2024″ here.
As an historic site that bears the scars of slavery, Tudor Place seeks to look this injustice in the eye. Click here to learn more.
