Georgetown Main Street has joined several other community-based organizations to bring DC a virtual shopping promotion this weekend. Over 150 small businesses across the 40 DC neighborhoods are offering special sales, gifts with purchase, discounts, and more - plus sidewalk sales in Georgetown.
Join Dumbarton House staff and George Washington University history professor Dr. David Silverman for a discussion of Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation by Nicholas Guyatt.
Officina has curated a Picnic Kit in fond recollection of days spent with friends sipping wine, sampling salumi, and creating memories in a most al fresco way across Italy.
Join guest curator Kelly Bresnowitz and Dumbarton House staff to talk about our current exhibition, Pick Your Poison, which explores drinking in the Federal period. After Kelly’s remarks and a Q&A about how our forebears imbibed, we will reimagine a classic colonial cocktail.
Join Dumbarton House staff for a virtual tea party! During this two hour program, we will bake a federal period tea time snack, make tea sandwiches and learn about proper table settings and etiquette.
Join Dumbarton House to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment! In support of the Forward Into Light campaign from the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission, this program will provide a virtual space for reflection, conversation, and expression.
Join us as we celebrate the anniversary of Dolley Madison’s flight from the White House to Dumbarton House in 1814, with both in-person and virtual events.
Sprinkles and Candace Parker, the most decorated female WNBA player, are teaming up August 24-26 to celebrate Women’s Equality Day, the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment & the 55th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
Back for a limited-time, Sprinkles' Circus Animal Cupcake features a vanilla cake topped with strawberry buttercream frosting, rainbow sprinkles and a circus animal cookie.
Our NEW Cracker Jacks Cupcake features a caramel cake studded with honey roasted peanuts, caramel frosting, a Cracker Jacks crown, and finished with a drizzle of caramel.