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Twin Oaks (Chinese: 雙橡園; pinyin: Shuāng Xiàng Yuán) is a 17-acre estate located in the Cleveland Park neighborhood in Washington, D.C., United States.It was the residence of nine Republic of China ambassadors to the United States before the United States broke off diplomatic ties with the Republic of China on Taiwan in 1979.
Twin Oaks Community is an ecovillage [2] and intentional community of about one hundred people [3] living on 450 acres (1.8 km 2) in Louisa County, Virginia. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is a member of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities . [ 6 ]
In 1955 Josiah K. Lilly Jr., the grandson of Eli Lilly (founder of Eli Lilly and Company), and Josiah's wife, Ruth Brinkmeyer, purchased Twin Oaks and made substantial alterations to create a European-style estate home, which they used for entertaining and as a guest house. Ruth, their daughter, lived at Twin Oaks from 1988 until her death in 2009.
The retired NBA legend's sprawling Highland Park estate has been on the market on and off since 2012 Reuters 2 months ago Realtors group forecasts US 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaging 6% in 2025
A native of Seattle, Washington, Kinkade helped found Twin Oaks in 1967, when she was in her mid 30s, after a career as a "bored secretary" and a brief stint at a cooperative house in Washington, D.C. In the 1970s, Kinkade left Twin Oaks to move to Missouri to help found East Wind Community, an offshoot of Twin Oaks. [1]
Twin Oaks (Wyoming, Ohio), listed on the NRHP in Ohio; Twin Oaks (Washington, D.C.), listed on the NRHP in Washington, D.C. Twin Oaks Plantation, a house on the National Register of Historic Places near Eutaw, Alabama; Stark's Twin Oaks Airpark, A privately owned, public use airport in Hillsboro Oregon