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New Downloads: CDA Brochure and 125th Anniversary Video

*Our CDA1890 website has been upgraded to a higher security level, making your exploration of the site even safer. We will continue to refine and upgrade the site, always striving to support our CDA Brand and to protect our members and information. *The video produced for...

September 20, 2015

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Help Maintain Our Unique Garden

Help Maintain Our Unique Garden, an Oasis in the City of New York Our wonderful CDA garden at the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden needs your help now. Fall planting, ivy cleanup, and soil replenishment must be done very soon in order to prepare for...

August 24, 2015

The Little Hotel That Couldn’t – New York Times, March 2015

"The Colonial Dames of America own and operate the museum, having purchased it in 1924 to use as their headquarters. Originating as a carriage house in 1799, the building later served as a country hotel, the Mount Vernon, and then had turns as a private...

May 30, 2015

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Keeping History Alive – WAMU, Autumn 2014

From WAMU.ORG: "Laura Belman descends from not one, not two, but three signers of the Declaration of Independence: Samuel Chase of Maryland, Oliver Wolcott of Connecticut, and William Ellery of Rhode Island. And she knows exactly what you’re going to say. “You’re going to say, ‘How...

December 21, 2014

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2014 Fall Fundraiser Benefits MVHMG

Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, curator of American Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, was the guest speaker October 28, 2014 at the CDA’s annual Fall Fundraiser. Held at the Abigail Adams Smith Auditorium in New York City, the proceeds of the evening benefitted the...

December 21, 2014

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Preserving History at Home and Abroad – Summer 2014

Preserving History at Home and Abroad By Sharri Whiting de Masi, Chair, CDA Communications Committee From the The Social Register Observer: Since its founding in New York almost 125 years ago, The Colonial Dames of America has been distinctive for its international outreach, both in terms of...

December 15, 2014

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75th Anniversary of The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden – 2013

This year marks the 75th anniversary of The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, which was first opened to the public in 1939 to coincide with the New York World's Fair. In 1924 The Colonial Dames of America rescued the building (c. 1799) and site...

August 26, 2014

New Downloads: CDA Brochure and 125th Anniversary Video

Help Maintain Our Unique Garden

The Little Hotel That Couldn’t – New York Times, March 2015

Keeping History Alive – WAMU, Autumn 2014

2014 Fall Fundraiser Benefits MVHMG

Preserving History at Home and Abroad – Summer 2014

75th Anniversary of The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden – 2013

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