Dumbarton House Annual Report Fiscal Year 2013 September 2012 – August 2013 Headquarters & Museum ~ The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America Letter from the Executive Director and chairman Dear Friends, Our temporary exhibition this past year—Metamo’rphosis I—provides a fitting theme for our 2013 fiscal year activities here at Dumbarton House, with exciting transformations afoot at your NSCDA national headquarters and museum. In the museum, new collections acquisitions have allowed us to enrich our interpretation of life in our national capital’s earliest days, while the Metamo’rphosis I exhibition encouraged contemporary artists to find inspiration for their modern creations in our historic collection. In the museum interiors, the Dining Room received a stunning facelift, returning it to its authentic Federal period aesthetic. Outside, a transformation of another sort commenced with extensive upgrades to irrigation and garden lighting systems performed alongside emergency repairs of the air conditioning compressor and multiple sink holes. Inside, summer renovations carved out dedicated collections storage space from a former custodial supply closet and office space, and created a headquarters entrance, reception, meeting, and office space in the building’s west wing. Meanwhile, a team of skilled engineers, conservators, preservation architects, and sustainability consultants conducted a year-long study of the site’s HVAC system, funded through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The NSCDA 2012 Biennial kick-started this year of metamorphoses as members elected new national leadership (including Anna Duff as new NSCDA Vice President-Headquarters, Dumbarton House) and unveiled an engaging new brand for the Society. Our numerous museum programs, serving just under 20,000 this past year, and these numerous preservation efforts would not be possible without the generous support of friends like you from across the country. Here at Dumbarton House we take our responsibility—as stewards “Entrusted with History’s Future”—seriously, and your contributions allow us to advance our vital mission of preservation and education. Please enjoy the highlights of the transformative past year included in the following pages. We look forward to reporting on still more accomplishments in next year’s report and offer our sincere thanks to the many donors, volunteers, members, and staff who support our efforts to inspire patriotism in our fellow citizens. Most sincerely, Anna F. Duff Chairman, Dumbarton House Board Karen L. Daly Executive Director Karen Daly, Executive Director, & Anna Duff, Chairman, Dumbarton House Board Dumbarton House Board Fiscal Year 2013 Mrs. Michael Joseph Esser (Bettina) Mrs. W. Richard Smyser (Sally) (Sept. 1, 2012 - Aug. 31, 2013) Mrs. Thomas J. Fairhurst (Nancy) Mrs. Mark Howard Sokolsky (Susan) Mrs. Stephen F. Fields (Mary) Mrs. Kemp Crocker Stickney, Sr. (Edith) Officers Mrs. Philip Heeth Grantham (Janie) Mrs. Richard Edgar Lewis Strauss (Linda) Mrs. Steven Duff (Anna) Miss Laura Hollingsworth Gray (Holly) Ms. Anne R. Stuart Mrs. Michael R. Bromley (Rebecca) Mrs. Ross Ethan Groen (Mary) Betsy Nordstrom Tiffany Dr. Judith Page Goggin Ms. Isola Sherrerd Hartness (Sherrerd) Mrs. Hugh Hanna Tilson (Judy) Mrs. Zissimos Frangopoulos (Ruthie) Ms. Sarah Hill Mrs. Richard Frederick Trismen (Bonnie) Katherine Taylor Cammack Mrs. Otis Hayward Johnson, Jr. (Carroll) Mrs. James Gary Ulmer (Francita) Mrs. James E. Kernan (Sally) Mrs. Thomas Bragg Van Antwerp (Gypsie) Judge Patricia G. Aitken (Pat) Mrs. Charles Andrew Liles (Lisa) Mrs. John Tagart von Stade (Phyllis) Mrs. John Robert Allen, Jr. (Jodie) Mrs. Thomas H. Mack (Judy) Mrs. James C. Wright (Bobbi) Mrs. Horace B. Beale (Sandy) Mrs. Joseph D. Matarazzo (Ruth) Mrs. James Edward Youker (Sally) Nancy Bergerson Mrs. Richard V. Mattingly (Linda) Mrs. David Borden (Nancy) Mrs. Douglas Forbes McCallum (Marianne) Thank you to those board members Mrs. John P. Boylin, Jr. (Jane) Mrs. Douglas E. McKinney (Sue) whose terms expired during FY2013: Mrs. Frederick H. Brackney (Susan) Mrs. Michael McPherson (Susan) Dr. Marilynn Baxter Mrs. Steven Peter Bucci (Suzanne) Mrs. Ferro Mesarch (Dianne Ferro) Mrs. James Boote Congdon (Sally) Mrs. Charles Buonassisi (Louise) Mrs. James Thoburn Mills (Frances) Mrs. David Lee Genter (Anne) Mrs. Dennis Keith Calhoun (Louise) Mrs. Charles F. Moore (Jane) Hilary Gripekoven Mrs. John G. Callan (Linda) Mrs. Lucian Newman, Jr. (Jane) Mrs. Frederick Downes Iselin (Sallie) Mrs. Richard R. Carr (Elise) Mrs. A. Corkran Nimick (Nancy) Mrs. Peter I. C. Knowles II (Brantley) Mrs. Michael C. Carter (Margaret) Mrs. Cortlandt Parker (Nancy) Mrs. James R. C. Cobb (Stuart) Mrs. George Franklin Port (Harriet) Sadly Missed Mrs. George Dewey, Jr. (Amy) Mrs. Eric Reading (Jennie) Mrs. Joel S. Lawson, Jr. (Ann) Ms. Roxann H. Dieffenbach Mrs. Thomas Edward Reilly Jr. (Bonnie) Mrs. Robert Donald Ehrhardt (Julia) Mrs. Hill C. Riddle (Macon) Ms. Martha Elliott (Marty) Mrs. Charles Lunsford Saunders, Jr. (Marcia) Financials Income Fiscal Year 2013 Expenses Fiscal Year 2013 $1,139,169 $1,229,709 Earned Income: NSCDA Support Space Planning & Personnel: Other, $107,724 $387,000 Renovations Wages 10% 34% $257,351 $419,802 21% 33% Earned Income: Rentals, $151,900 Collections, Conservation, 13% & Programs: $85,564 7% Donations: Insurance, Grants Printing, Postage, $87,829 Other: $93,888 8% 7% Personnel: Utilities & Telecom Benefits & Taxes $44,766 $70,199 4% 6% Donations: Conferences, Contract Labor NSCDA Individual & Other Meetings, & Travel Advertising & $37,998 Investment Income $320,690 $6,014 Maintenance, Marketing 3% 28% for DH: $84,026 0.5% Repairs, Office $21,059 7% Equip. 2% $193,068 16% Income and expense amounts are based on preliminary, unaudited figures. Instead of depreciation, capital expenditures are reported, and investment income includes only the amount drawn from invested funds, not the total return on investments. Fiscal Year 2013 ended with a deficit of $90, 540, funded with prior year’s surplus. Programs and outreach Programs National Headquarters Dumbarton House continued to host •In October, Biennial was held at a variety of programs throughout the the Ritz-Carlton in Arlington. year such as lectures, book signings, Dumbarton House supported history and cupcake walking tours coordination efforts to serve 322 of Georgetown, Jazz concerts, blood registered attendees. drives, and outdoor film screenings. •The first Director’s Roundtable was These programs, along with general held in October 2012 following the museum visitation and guests of Biennial. There were 24 museum Author Jodi Daynard at a signing for her book The private events, account for the nearly Midwife’s Revolt directors from NSCDA museums 20,000 visitors served at Dumbarton across the country. The Roundtable House in fiscal year 2013. •The Governing Council of the met for two days of discussion on Virginia Association of Museums shared successes and issues at each (VAM) appointed Executive of their museum properties. The Director Karen Daly as a new Roundtable also included a trip member and director for the District to Gunston Hall for a tour and of Columbia. The mission of VAM presentation by Charlie Bryan, is to serve as the resource network former director of the VA Historical of the Virginia and District of Society, on the future of historic Columbia museum community house museums. through education, technical •The DC Society hosted several assistance, and advocacy. programs at Dumbarton House, including a lecture by Benjamin Picnic Theatre Company performing An Ideal Husband Patton on his memoir of his grandfather General Patton. •This year Picnic Theatre Company performed Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband in the fall and Moliere’s Tartuffe in the summer. Performances were attended by a combined audience of over 700 guests, and Tartuffe was the fifth Concert with classical guitarist Benjamin Biers, made performance offered in partnership possible by an individual donor with the troupe of local, volunteer performers. •Success in rental events at Dumbarton House continued throughout the year. Events included weddings, engagement parties, memorial services, professional retreats, and CA Trip participants visit Wolfang Puck’s restaurant Spago in LA holiday celebrations. Among the organizations that rented California Trip Dumbarton House are KAVI Corporation, Georgetown In the winter, Dumbarton House Board University, the Field School, and member Judy Mack and Gunston Hall Regent Anne Rhett Merrill organized a Dumbarton House is the first museum and historic site to Edward Jones. be honored with the Mayor’s Sustainability Award due to fundraising trip for Dumbarton House ongoing green efforts such as the purchase of 100% wind and Gunston Hall to historic sites and power, 100% carbon offsets, and a robust recycling program art museums in California. Twenty- three participants enjoyed visiting sites •Dumbarton House was recognized such as the Reagan Ranch, the Getty as one of nine recipients of the Museum, the Huntington Library and Mayor’s Sustainability Award for Gardens, and dinner at Wolfgang Puck’s environmental stewardship, best Dumbarton House was named one of Washington DC’s restaurant Spago. practices, pollution prevention, and “2013 Best Wedding Vendors” in the Washingtonian resource conservation. Bride & Groom magazine Programs and outreach Preservation AND Conservation Historic Site Maintenance Dumbarton House received a grant from the National Endowment