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Join Tudor Place for a guided candlelit tour highlighting the season of gift giving among the Peter family and the African American and immigrant domestic laborers who lived and worked at Tudor Place.
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By Mennatalla Ibrahim
Special to the AFRO | October 24, 2023
Photo courtesy: Francesca Donovan
There’s great comfort and privilege in tracing one’s features or mannerisms through a family line. However, for many African Americans across the country, this task is often marked with a unique pain and difficulty due to the absence or distortion of records left behind during slavery.
The annual Tudor Place Landmark Lecture Series makes space for the descendants of enslaved people to share their journeys in piecing together their ancestors’ stories.
“Tudor Place is keeping enslaved people’s stories alive,” said Jerolyn Cole, a descendent of John Luckett, who served as a gardener at Tudor Place for 44 years.
Descendants of enslaved individuals discussed the generational historical trauma and emotional responses that came with discovering the stories of their ancestors.
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Press Release
October 3, 2023
Washington, DC — Tudor Place Historic House & Garden is partnering with Georgetown University’s Art & Museum Studies Masters Program to present Identity, Trauma & Reconciliation: A Conversation with Descendants, part of Tudor Place’s Landmark Lecture series.
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Press Release
September 26, 2023
Washington, DC — Tudor Place Historic House & Garden launches Death Comes to Tudor Place, a specialty exhibition and guided tour examining how funeral customs and burial practices evolved at Tudor Place across nearly two centuries. The Death Comes to Tudor Place tour will be offered October 3 through November 5.
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press@tudorplace.org | 202-580-7323
Tudor Place ranks in top 10 picture-perfect gardens near D.C.
August
14, 2023 @ 10:000 am | Katherine Mahoney
What better way to spend the long summer days than getting lost in a garden surrounded by flowers and the summer sun? The D.C. area is filled with unique public gardens perfect for a summer picnic, photo op or simply basking in the sun. Grab your camera and sunglasses and meander your way through these 10 enchanting gardens.
Stephanie Green marveling at the peonies at Tudor Place’s 31st annual garden party in the heart of Georgetown.Fruits replaced florals on the dresses at Tudor Place’s 31st annual garden party where lemons, oranges and grapefruits added a vibrant dash of color amid the pastels.
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It’s been a quiet couple of years at the historic Tudor Place mansion in Washington, DC, where descendants of Martha Washington lived for generations.
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Tudor Place saluted Diana Prince, longtime supporter of the house and gardens, built in 1815, at its annual garden party. Her daughter Daisy Prince Chisholm accepted the award on behalf of her mother, who could not attend the event due to recuperation from a medical procedure.
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Tudor Place’s Spring Garden Party brought out Georgetown’s finest.
The friends, the florals, the dazzling hats. An assemblage of sartorial splendor under a tent on a beautiful Wednesday evening.
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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.
