Dumbarton House

Dumbarton House is a significant example of early Federal period architecture that features 18th- and 19th-century furniture and decorative arts (paintings, textiles, silver, and ceramics), made and used during the Republic's formative years. Constructed around 1800 in an Adamesque Federal ...

Dumbarton House

Headquarters of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America

The site was part of a tract called “The Rock of Dumbarton” patented 1703 by Nintan Beall.

The house was probably started 1799 by Samuel Jackson. It was completed 1805 by Joseph ...