The Washington herald., 1921-06-12
Season Gay
In Edgenoor
Beauty Surrounds Homes
In Fashionable Mary
land Suburb.

Edgemoor, Nd. Washington's
most fashionable suburb. is now at
the height Of its summer bloom
and there is surely no more charm
ing place to be found than this ar
tistic suburb. The owners seem TO
vie with each other to see which
can produce the most artistic ef-
feet in gardening. The walled gar
den OF Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lind
s4y-Mrs. Lindsay is the one who is
head Of the Girl Scouts Of the Dis
trict, you know-on Fairfax road.
might be said to carry of the palm.
Leading from the house into a
grove of giant oaks. IL is framed
in a high wall Of stone over which
the great trees loom and spread
their shade. The stone has the sp-
pearance Of great age and is soft
ened with trailing clematis and Viz
ginia creeper. Bright beds OF
flowers in regular formal patterns
are edged with close clipped
dwarfed srbor-vitae, and traversed
by little paths OF sparkling white
gravel At one end is deep stone
pool, large enough for a child 20
paddle in. giving a delicious sense
Of coolness TO the whole place
HOUSE IN SPANISH sTTLE
BUILT AROUND COURT.
The Walter Tuckerm4n house is
built around a court, Spanish style,
and in a lawn Of three acres where
, perennial shrubs are well developed.
New arrivals in Edgemoor are Mr..
and Mrs Edward A Morse, who
| formerly resided in the historic old
| Fairfax home. Mount Eagle. in Vir-
| ginia. on the Mount Vernon road on
the heights OF Hunting creek and
| overlooking Alexandria and Wash
ington They sold IL and bought
the handsome home on Exeter road
formerly owned by Mrs Harry ST.
George Tucker. The extensive
planting which they are inaugural
ing shows that they have no in
tention OF being outdone by their
neighbors. The EdGemoor tennis
courts are perfectly fne and are
in constant use. Tea is served by
members Of the EdGemor colony al
the courts on Saturday afternoons
Play will shortly begin in Competi-
tion for the Edgemoor cup. There
is talk OF building swimming
pool near the courts too. They Go
have such delightfully."- jolly times
in Edgemoor,
| Mrs. Evans Browne, who has been
abroad for several months, has re-
turned and has taken the little
Girvin Peter cottage in Edgemoor.
| a charming little house in that
beautiful suburb near Chevy Chase.
The colony at Edgemoor now COM
prises about Is or 20 families. all
Of them Of special interest as well
as being Of the ultra smart set.
The Peter house, on the grounds OF
which is the little cottage, was
burnt down last winter. Comdr.
and Mrs. ]. w. Barnett. jr-, were
occupying IL at the time and barely
escaped with their lives, you may
recall The Barnetts now are oc-
cupying the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
IClarence l.. Harding just across
Edgemoor lane from the Peter
house. which the Peters are going
to rebuild. by the way. The Hard
ings came to town last fall and
have been residing at the kenesaw
apartments. He was the architect
who designed the Franklin Mac
Veagh house-better known nov as
the Breckenridge Long house - In
Sixteenth street
SWISS LEGATION SECRETARY
LEASES HOUSE AT EDGEMoOR.
The Evans Browne house in
Edgemoor is leased just now 20
DR.. and Mrs. Conrad Jenny. He is
secretary of the Swiss legation.
They are a newly married couple.
That house has been rather popular
with brides. II was occupied by
Mona McAdoo when she became
Nine. de Morenschild and later by
Mr.. and Mrs. Owen Johnson imme-
diately after his second marriaSe.
His wife was Cecile Denis de La
garde. She died there in that house
at the time OF the birth OF her first
baby. II was after that that the
Brownies took the house where
they resided until Mr. Brownies 8
sudden death last fall. The Girvin
Peters have the home of Comdr.
and Mrs. Hugh Mclean Walker.
She was Elizabeth X. Dodge. dauGh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison Dodge.
Mr.. Dodge is superintendent OF
Mount Vernon and belongs 20 the
old and aristocratic Georgetown
family Of that name. The Dodges
have a house in Edgemoor too; they
and their widowed daughter, Mrs
Elvia r. Heiberg. live together
there. Also Mrs. walker. Commdr.
Walker Is on sea duty. MAJ. Hei-
berg died. you will recall. several
years ago while serving AZ military
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