Tudor Place Historic House & Garden

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Tudor Place Historic House & Garden 1816 historic house & garden in WDC with family ties to George Washington.
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A model of Federal-period architecture in the nation’s capital, Tudor Place was home to six generations of Martha Washington’s descendants from 1805 to 1983 and the enslaved workers and servants who lived and worked here. With thousands of decorative objects, including the largest Washington Collection outside of Mount Vernon, Tudor Place sits on 5 ½ acres in the heart of Georgetown.

🎃 Trick or Treat at Tudor Place is back!Calling all little ghosts, goblins and superheroes! Bring your kids for a mornin...
10/23/2026

🎃 Trick or Treat at Tudor Place is back!

Calling all little ghosts, goblins and superheroes! Bring your kids for a morning of trick-or-treating in our gardens, with candy and surprises waiting along the way. There will be crafts, games and face painting for the kids, plus coffee and c***r for the grown-ups. 🍂

🗓 Saturday, October 31 | 10 a.m.–noon
📍 Tudor Place garden. This event is outdoors, rain or shine.
🎟 Member child: $15 | Non-member child: $20 | Accompanying adult: $10

Get tickets at the link in bio.

Costumes encouraged! 👻

We were delighted to welcome the Georgetown Garden Club to Tudor Place for a garden tour, featuring a talk by Ana, Direc...
10/19/2026

We were delighted to welcome the Georgetown Garden Club to Tudor Place for a garden tour, featuring a talk by Ana, Director of Buildings, Gardens & Grounds, and a visit to our special exhibition, Founding Fortunes: The Estate Sale of Martha Washington.

Then the club turned their visit into art: for this week’s Flower Show, members created arrangements inspired by Tudor Place. Our team was thrilled to see them in person! 🌿

Thank you for your longtime friendship and generous support in caring for this historic landscape. We loved having you here!

Members enjoy unlimited self-guided garden visits all year. Become a member at the link in bio.

We’re proud to be featured in the Washington Business Journal's Women Who Mean Business issue! 📰Tudor Place served as th...
10/16/2026

We’re proud to be featured in the Washington Business Journal's Women Who Mean Business issue! 📰

Tudor Place served as the backdrop for this year’s honoree portraits, including the cover, photographed at our south lawn’s temple portico. The issue’s “About the Space” feature shares the history of the house, home to six generations of Martha Washington’s descendants, and our 5½ acres of gardens.

We’re especially proud to congratulate our Executive Director, Mary-Frances Wain, on being named one of this year’s distinguished honorees. 👏

Thank you to the Washington Business Journal, Special Projects Editor Nicole Wallace and photographer Abdullah Konte for capturing Tudor Place so beautifully.

Read “About the Space”: https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/c/women-who-mean-business-2026/48416/about-the-space-tudor-place.html

Read Mary-Frances’s Q&A: https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/c/women-who-mean-business-2026/48415/mary-frances-wain.html

When we picture the American Revolution, we usually see 13 colonies facing off against the British Crown. But that’s onl...
10/13/2026

When we picture the American Revolution, we usually see 13 colonies facing off against the British Crown. But that’s only half the story. 🌍

Made in China, this punch bowl in Tudor Place’s Washington Collection reminds us that the world of the American Revolution was already connected across oceans through trade.

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝟭𝟬 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗟𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱. He’ll show how the war that founded the United States reached across six continents, from the sugar fields of the Caribbean to the court of the King of Mysore, and from refugee camps on the Canadian frontier to uprisings in Sierra Leone and Peru.

It redrew maps, toppled hierarchies, set people in motion, and fueled new movements for both liberty and empire.

Bell is Professor of History at the University of Maryland. His book of the same name won the 2025 Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Award.

🗓 Tuesday, October 13 | 6:30–8 p.m.
📍 Dower House, Tudor Place, or join virtually
🎟 Free for members and non-members. Register at the link in bio. Part of at Tudor Place.

Pictured: Punch bowl from Tudor Place’s Washington Collection, Jingdezhen, China, 1765–1775. Hard-paste porcelain with overglaze enamel decoration, 3173.01. This object will not be on display during the lecture.

“With Warming Hand I Mark Times Rapid Flight.”Our garden’s sundial carries these words. Want to make your mark?Join Tudo...
10/06/2026

“With Warming Hand I Mark Times Rapid Flight.”

Our garden’s sundial carries these words. Want to make your mark?

Join Tudor Place’s Advancement team as a Marketing Coordinator or Advancement Coordinator. Help share the stories of our historic home, collections and gardens—and build connections that carry this cultural haven in the heart of Georgetown forward.

Explore the opportunities and apply:

tudorplace.org/about/job-internships

🗓️ A schedule update from Tudor Place: beginning Tuesday, Oct. 6, we are closed to the public on Tuesdays through the en...
10/05/2026

🗓️ A schedule update from Tudor Place: beginning Tuesday, Oct. 6, we are closed to the public on Tuesdays through the end of the year.

Our regular Tuesday – Saturday schedule returns in 2027.

🕰️ New guided house tour times, now in effect:

Wednesday – Saturday: 10:30 and 11:30 a.m., and 12:30, 1:30 and 2:30 p.m.

Sunday: 12:30, 1:30 and 2:30 p.m.

Plan your visit at tudorplace.org/visit.

Join us on Saturday for artist talks, live music, lawn games, and watercolors in the garden 🎨🌿Sketch the Lily Pond. Play...
09/11/2026

Join us on Saturday for artist talks, live music, lawn games, and watercolors in the garden 🎨🌿

Sketch the Lily Pond. Play lawn games on the East Lawn, listen to live music drift across the garden, and sit with the stories behind the paintings.

🖼️ Peter Waddell, our Artist-In-Residence, joins us for a talk on painting the past – how a historic house becomes a painting, and how a person of the past becomes a portrait.

🏛️ Art from the Archive brings you the artist behind the paintings. We’ll look at Armistead Peter 3rd’s life as an artist – where he trained, who he learned from, and the subjects he returned to again and again across nearly 50 years of painting this house and garden.

🎨 Then bring your own brush to it. Inspired by Armistead Peter 3rd, paint your own historic watercolor on the South Lawn and take it home with you.

➡️ Swipe through for the full lineup.
Join us Sept. 12 for Painting the Past: Art at Tudor Place, part of Georgetown Main Street’s Art All Night 2026.

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“I was but a child of twelve years old.”Britannia Peter Kennon, seated at left, remembered summer evenings at Tudor Plac...
08/20/2026

“I was but a child of twelve years old.”

Britannia Peter Kennon, seated at left, remembered summer evenings at Tudor Place: visitors arriving by carriage, the pleasure of familiar company, and a yellow carriage waiting beneath the locust tree near the box circle.

Britannia was Tudor Place’s longest-tenured owner. Born while James Madison was president, she lived to 95, long enough to witness the arrival of electric light, the telephone, and the automobile.

Her letters, papers, household accounts, and receipts from 1860 to 1911 offer an intimate record of life at Tudor Place across more than half a century.
But Britannia belongs to this history not only as a subject. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 ✍️

In the 1890s, her grandchildren began asking what she remembered, and they wrote down her recollections. Much of what we know about the first century of this house reaches us through the memory of a woman in her eighties.
It is a reminder that history does not live only in documents and objects. Sometimes, it survives because someone remembered.

Those reminiscences were published for the first time as 𝐴 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒, edited by Grant S. Quertermous. Find it in the Tudor Place Museum Shop – 20% off for members through August. Link in bio. 🌷

We have spent the past few days — weeks, really — rolling up our sleeves to find new ways of opening our collection to f...
08/16/2026

We have spent the past few days — weeks, really — rolling up our sleeves to find new ways of opening our collection to friends in Georgetown and afar.

This photograph sleeve from our archive, dating to the early 1900s, reminds us how differently we once documented, stored, and preserved memories.

It came back from the shop still holding someone’s negatives, printed with a KODAK advertisement on one side and, on the other, a table explaining how to expose a photograph on a bright afternoon. (It even tells you to hold your breath!)

In a collection the size of ours, everyday objects like this can tell us stories that the treasures don’t: the material life of a memory, the time it took to make a photograph, and the care it took to preserve one.

Everyday objects are how we keep people.

🌱 Seeds are baby plants waiting to grow 🌱 Calling all little ones: join us in the garden and plant a seed of knowledge.O...
08/11/2026

🌱 Seeds are baby plants waiting to grow 🌱 Calling all little ones: join us in the garden and plant a seed of knowledge.

Our series Tudor Tots welcomes early learners, aged 18 months to four years old, and their caregivers to discover what kinds of plants grow in our historic garden while enjoying a story time, songs, nature at its finest, and a hands-on art project.

Join us tomorrow to learn, sing, and dig in together.

🌿 Tudor Tots: G is for Garden
🗓️ Wednesday, August 12 · 10:15–11:00 a.m.
🎟️ $5 member child · $10 non-member child · accompanying adult free
Reserve your spot at the link in our bio.

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1644 31st Street NW
Washington D.C., DC
20007

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm

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