Tregaron Estate
- Architect
- Charles A. Platt
- Style
- Georgian
- City
- Washington, DC
Tregaron Estate, originally called "The Causeway," is a 20.5-acre country estate in Cleveland Park built in 1912 for Alice and James Parmelee, who lived there until 1940. Architect Charles Adams Platt designed the mansion, with landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman laying out the grounds around it. From 1942 to 1958 the estate was home to former ambassador Joseph E. Davies and his wife, Post Cereal Company heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post.
the building
The grounds. Beyond the mansion, the estate includes a carriage house, greenhouse, gardener's residence, and a Russian-style dacha added later by Ambassador and Mrs. Davies. Platt worked with the natural contours of the site, siting the mansion at the highest point of the grounds so it looks south over the city.
the style
The mansion follows a Georgian idiom, one thread in what the estate itself describes as a deliberately varied mix of architectural styles across its outbuildings, from the formal main house to the later Russian-style dacha.
More on Georgiansignificance
Tregaron is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The estate now hosts a campus of the Washington International School alongside the Tregaron Conservancy, which maintains the grounds.
nearby
- Uptown Theater
- The Kennedy-Warren
- Cathedral Mansions
- Slayton, William L., House (and Interior)
- Sedgwick Gardens
- Washington Cathedral (Cathedral Church of Saint Peter & Saint Paul & Close; National Cathedral)