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StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0392Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of large house with a large lawn, a large tree is planted near the house while several more are behind the structure. Above the image "48" is printed, below the image "32260 The Home Beloved of Washington, Mount Vernon, Va." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
32260
MOUNT VERNON, VA. HOME AND BURIAL PLACE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
A journey of about 8 miles along a winding and picturesque country road brings us from Alexandria to the place which, perhaps more than any other single spot in the world, is of abiding interest to the average American, - Mount Vernon. It is one of the many circumstances which seem peculiarly fitting in connection with Washington as the chief founder of a nation such as the Untied States, that the home where he spent his happiest years was a farm which his thought and energy developed into a model establishment. The father of his country was, by nature and choice, even more a farmer than he was a soldier and statesman. The original Mount Vernon tract of 2,500 acres which he inherited from his older brother, Lawrence, in 1752, he incread during his lifecime to 8,000 acres. The sixteen years from 1759 to 1775 he spent as a busy country gentleman at Mount Vernon, and againg for five years after the close of the Revolution he lived here. During his eight years' service as the first President of the United States he visited Mount Vernon frequently and after his retirement from office in 1798 he returned and resided here until his death in the following year.
It was just before the outbreak of the Revolution that Washington planned and began the construction of additions t his Mansion House at Mount Vernon which transformed it into the spacious residence which we known today, and which we are now viewing from a point on the lawn S. E. fo the house. The additions mentioned included the lofty portico and the two curving colonnades of which we see the S. one, extendi back to the kitchen at the left. the window of Washinton's bed chamber is the one in the second story nearest to the end of the colonnade.
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