Dumbarton Oaks
Dumbarton Oaks, an estate in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. The Dumbarton Oaks Conference met here in 1944 during World War II to draft plans for a world security organization. Delegations from the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China drew up proposals for the United Nations.
The estate with the mansion and formal gardens belongs to Harvard University. The building contains a library of about 50,000 volumes and an art collection of the early Christian and Byzantine periods. Robert Woods Bliss, diplomat and art collector, donated the estate to Harvard in 1940 as a research center.