TwinOaks Estate was a home to nine ROC Ambassadors, a National Historic Site, and a Symbol of
Friendship with the United States. I heard about it for a long time and finally visited it with a Taiwanese intellectual property delegation.
It is situated atop a hill on a parcel of land once owned by a one-legged
Revolutionary War general is a 26-room mansion that served as the official
residence of nine ambassadors from the Republic of China (ROC) between 1937 and
1978 and which still belongs to the ROC government in Taiwan.
The land upon which Twin Oaks rests belonged originally to Uriah Forrest, an American general in the Revolutionary War, a member of the first Continental Congress, and one of Maryland's first delegates to the U.S. Congress.
I enjoyed the estate's gardens, its Georgian Revival architecture, and its priceless Ch'ing dynasty antiques.
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