Marly

Completed in 1931, for Delphine Dodge (1899-1943) and her second husband Raymond T. Baker (1877-1935), Director of the U.S. Mint and former husband of Mrs Maggie Vanderbilt. Their 44-room house measures 142-by-59-feet and stood on a 13-acre estate with magnificent views over the Potomac Valley and the distant Blue Ridge Mountains. It was commissioned as a wedding present from Delphine's mother, Mrs Anna Dodge, and was designed by Horace Trumbauer who modelled it on L'Hôtel de Rothelin-Charolais (1704) in Paris. But, just three years later (1934) they were divorced and the following year Delphine married her third husband, Timothy Godde, in England....