Washington Winter Show 2010

Leslie L. Buhler is the Executive Director of Tudor Place His- toric House and Garden in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Tudor Place is grateful to its Collections Committee: Christine Minter-Dowd; Ronald L. Hurst, Vice President of Collections and Museums, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; Archivist Wendy Kail; Collections Manager Fay Winkle; and Collections Assistant Joni Joseph for their exper- tise and efforts on behalf of the loan exhibition. Design for the exhibition is by Linda McNamara. 1. Maud Burr Morris, ed., Records of the Columbia Historical Society (Washington, DC.: Columbia Historical Society, 1932), Vol. 33–34, p. 144. 2. William A. Gordon, “Recollections of a Boyhood in Georgetown,” Read before the Society, April 18, 1916, Records of the Columbia Historical Society (Washington, DC: Columbia Historical Society, 1917), Vol. 20, p. 130. 3. Barbara G. Carson, Ambitious Appetites: Dining, Behavior, and Patterns of Consumption in Federal Washington (Washington, D.C., The American Institute of Architects Press, 1990), pp. 29–30, 126–127, 132–133. 4. Margaret Law Callcott, ed. and trans., Mistress of Riversdale: The Planta- tion Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert 1795–1821, E. Calvert to Isabelle van Havre, 25 March 1819 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), p. 346. 5. Abigail Smith Adams to John Adams, 31 July 1777 (Boston: Ad- ams Family Papers, The Massachusetts Historical Society), accessed August 9, 2010. http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/aea/cfm/ doc.cfm?id=L17770730aa. 6. Kenneth Ames, Death in the Dining Room (Philadelphia: Temple Uni- versity Press, 1992), pp. 38, 239. 7. Barbara McLean Ward & Gerald W.R. Ward, Silver in American Life (Connecticut: The American Federation of Arts, 1979), pp. 23–30. 8. Britannia’s Reminiscences, recorded February 27, 1905, MS 14, Box 69, F 24. Tudor Place, Washington, DC. Tudor Place Archive. 9. Diary of Armistead Peter, Jr., December 25, 1919, MS 14, Box 73, F 4. Washington, DC. Tudor Place Archive. Figure 10: Double barrel 12-gauge shot gun, Parker Bros., Meriden, CT, 1919. Steel, wood, brass, leather. Fully engraved and cased with two trial shells and a cleaning kit, the Serial No. 172805 in gold inlay is behind the trigger. The stock plate is engraved “A.P. Jr.” The gun was sold by Abercrombie & Fitch, New York, NY. Tudor Place Collection. Photograph by Red Tack Arts. ABOUT TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN A National Historic Landmark, Tudor Place is located at 1644 31st Street NW in the heart of the historic Georgetown district. Tudor Place’s programs focus on the historical development of Georgetown, the Federal City, and the major events that shaped the American Republic from the 18th to the 20th century as seen through the Custis-Peter family. Tudor Place is owned and operated by the Tudor Place Foundation, Inc., a private not-for-profit foundation committed to protecting, preserving, maintaining, and interpreting the historic property and collections while instilling the value of the past in the public perception. The site is open to the public for guided and specialized tours of the house every day of the week except Mondays and the gardens are open for self-guided tours. School, scout, and public programs are offered throughout the year. For further information visit www.tudorplace.org. 37