Dumbarton Oaks Ruin Garden

Dumbarton Oaks, a museum and research library with historic gardens, includes a constructed "Ruin" or Ruin Garden that assembles stone fragments and masonry to evoke a weathered classical ruin. The feature was created as part of the Bliss estate's early 20th-century landscape work and remains an intentionally designed, non-archaeological garden element. The Ruin is a recognized and photographed component of the museum's garden complex visited by the public.