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Tregaron (estate)
Tregaron is a estate in Washington, D. C. on the grounds of The Causeway.
==History==
The property, originally part of a larger estate, "Twin Oaks", was bought by Gardiner Greene Hubbard, founder of the National Geographic Society, in the 1880s, and named "The Causeway". His daughter Mabel married Alexander Graham Bell, and inherited the property, which she sold to James Parmelee, a Cleveland financier. He hired Charles Adams Platt to design a country house for the property. Platt employed Ellen Biddle Shipman as landscape architect for the project.
After Parmelee's death, the estate was purchased in 1940 by Joseph E. Davies and his wife, Marjorie Merriweather Post. Davies was First Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission; American Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1936-1938); Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg (1938-1939); a lawyer (1937 Law Firm: Davies, Richberg. Beebe, Busick and Richardson); and Special Advisor to President Harry Truman and Secretary of State James Byrnes, with Rank of Ambassador at the Potsdam Conference. Davies named the place "Tregaron" (the town of Saint Caron)〔Morgan, Thomas (The Place Names of Wales ) (1912) p. 96〕 after the town where his father, Edward Davies, was born in Ceredigion, Wales.
After Davies's death in 1958, the Washington International School purchased of the , and the Tregaron Limited Partnership, an Israeli corporation, purchased the remaining . Attempts to develop the space were opposed by the "Friends of Tregaron", a community group. Eventually, in 2006, an agreement was reached by which of the estate have been conserved as open green space and are managed by Tregaron Conservatory.
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