If you've never heard of Hillwood Estate, Museum, and Gardens, it's the last home/mansion of Marjorie Merriweather Post (Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies May), the heiress of the Post cereal fortune. She was a funny lady, very popular, living and partying among the Vanderbilts and other wealthy families of the day. She also married...4 times, the last when she was 71, and she managed to divorce him before she died. And her daughters, all three, were married at least 3 times each. Just an interesting bunch of facts.
Despite the dismal family tree, the estate is beautiful and peaceful, and situated in north east DC, somewhere behind all of the ambassadors' houses. We didn't know such a treasure existed so close!
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