With a New Director, Tudor Place Gets Ready for Its Bicentennial

One of this town’s, Washington, D.C.s and America’s great houses and gardens, Tudor Place, will celebrate 200 years of life and history in Georgetown next year.

“This is a remarkable and dynamic place,” said Mark Hudson, the new executive director of Tudor Place. “We’re making new discoveries every day, learning about life and culture in the capital city over two centuries.”
“America’s story lives at Tudor Place,” as the landmark museum officials say, “animated by the lives of six generations of the Peter family, their community and the enslaved and free people who worked for them.”

Built by Martha Parke Custis Peter — Martha Washington’s granddaughter — and husband Thomas Peter in 1816, the estate at 1644 31st St. NW is a treasure trove of America’s first first family.

Taking up five-and-a-half acres in the city, Tudor Place opened to the public in 1988. It has an array of programs for 2016 — from a Presidents’ Day open house, a Peters family reunion, its annual garden party (Tudor Place is the honoree) and a birthday party for the estate on July 2. There will be an 1816 Dinner in October.