Evening star., 1936-04-19
Blair House
To Be Open
This Week
Historic Home to Be
Shown for Strait
ford Benefit.

N Garner will be the guests
V of honor at the opening OF
4 L the Blair house, 1861 Penn
sylvania avenue, Tuesday and We'd
nesday under the auspicies of the
Robert e. Lee Memorial Foundation.
Mrs. Roosevelt will visit the home
Tuesday aud Mrs. Garner Wednes-
day.
Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke and Mrs.
Cary T. Grayson are in charge of the
Committee of Hostesses for the
opening. The members of this
group which will inform the visitors
of the historic points of interest in
the house, include Mrs. Stephan
Bonsal, Mrs. Gardner Boothe, Mrs.
j. Harry Covingtcu, Mrs. John w.
Davidge, Mrs. H Rozier Dulany, jr.:
Mrs. Hanson Ely, jr.; Mrs. David St.
Pierre Gaillard, Mrs. Duncan Law
renee Groner, Mrs. McCook Knox,
Mrs. Wilson Lee, Mrs. Albert Lucas,
Mrs. William Marbury, Mrs. Malcolm
Matheson, Mrs. John Minor, Mrs. c.
Beatty Moore, Mrs. George Maurice
Morris, Mrs. Stanley F. Reed, Mrs.
Lloyd P Shipper, Mrs. Harry S.
Venn. Miss Ellen Garnett, Mrs.
Benjamin Weems, Mrs. Bernard
Wycoff, Mrs. Harry B. Hawes, Mrs.
Samuel Beach and Mrs. Walter Guy.
A great treat is in store for those
who visit this old historic mansion
with the superb collection of Ameri-
cana brought together by Maj. Gist
Blair, the present owner, and his an
cestors in a period of over 100
years; rare portraits, originals by
COPY. Sully, and Peale; a Broadwood
piano of 1900 and set of chairs
with designs painted on them by
Robert Fulton, the famous engineer.
Museum pieces of silver and Love-
stoft china upstairs and down form a
unique collection.
Besides its association with Jack
son and Lincoln, the Blair house is
famous for its connections with other
great names in American history. 1t
was built in 1924 by DR.. Joseph
Lowell, surgeon general Of the Army
in the time of Madison. George
Bancroft of Massachusetts, occupied
the house when he was Polk's Sec
retary of the Navy.
The first Secretary of the Interior,
Thomas Ewing, was a resident and at
this time Miss Ellen Boyle Ewing
married Gen. Sherman.
Among the distinguished people
who are expected to visit the mansion
Tuesday and Wednesday are Mrs.
Arthur H vandenberg. Mrs. Robert
NJ. La Toilette, Mrs. William Gibbs
McAdoo. Representative Schuyler
Merritt. Representative Sam Ray
burn, Judge Annabel Matthews, Mrs
Paul H. Bastedo, Mrs. Truxtln Beale.
Mr. Henry Blair, Mrs. Harry S.
Bernton, Mrs. William Cabell Bruce,
Mrs. G. C. Birdsall, Mrs. Philip
Bonsal, Mr.. Charles Henry Butler,
Mrs Edward c. Buckland, Mrs. B. H.
Buckingham, Mrs. F. H. Calvert, MIR.
r. H. A. Carter, Mrs. Arthur Chi
chester, Mr.. H. L. Choate, Mrs. W.
Floyd Crosby, Mrs. B. G. Chynoweth
Mrs. Avery Coonley. Mrs. Charles
Drayton, Mrs. William M. Dougal
Mrs. David Dunlop, Mrs. Joshua
Evans, jr.: Mrs. Alastair Gordon Cum
ming, Mrs. Harry s. Grant, Mrs. j.
H. B. Gilliat, the Misses Guffey. Mrs.
Perry S. Heath, Mrs. r. Winston Holt,
Mrs. Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Mr.. Emil
Hurja, Col. Harry B. Jordon, Mr..
Rudolph Max Kaufman, Mrs. A. F.
Kempton, Mrs. Emory Scott Land.
Mrs. Richard l. La Garde, Miss Mary
Lindsey, Mr.. Thomas A. Lee, Mrs.
Henry Leonard, Mrs. Robert M. La
Toilette, Mrs. B. r. Logic, Mrs. Will L.
Lowrie, Col. William Lyster. Mrs. An
son G. McCook, Mrs. Henry K.
McHarg, Mrs. M. H. Mccoy, Mrs. w.
w. Mackall, jr.; Mrs. George S.
Marshall, Representative Schuyler
Merritt, Mrs. J. z. Murdock,
Robert L. OBrien, Mrs. c. F. r.
Ogilby, Representative Sam Rayburn,
Mrs. Oracle Richards, Mrs. Francis
M Savage, Mrs. Herbert ]. Slocum
Mrs. Swager Sherley, Miss Belle
SherWln, MIR. D. D. Shepard, Mrs.
John A. Swanson, Mrs. Hugh c. Wal
lace and Mrs. Luke Wilson.
Mrs. Alice Richards, regent of the
Mount Vernon Ladies Association, and
Miss Helen Louise Sargent, vice re-
gent from the District, have accepted
an invitation to become patronesses
for the Blair house opening Their
work in the restoration of Mount
Vernon has made them particularly
interested in saving Stratford for the
Nation