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Martha and George Washington Mount Vernon Virginia
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Mount Vernon, home to George and Martha Washington
Doll house size replica of the Mount Vernon Mansion
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Hi, this is the third page of our photos and comments for Mount Vernon. For our first Mount Vernon page click here.
Mount Vernon is located on the Potomac River in Virginia, about 8 miles below the southern edge of the Washington DC beltway.
Mount Vernon was the beloved home of George and Martha Washington from the time of their marriage in 1759. Evidence collected by archaeologists is being used to reconstruct the First President's estate, mansion, gardens, and Mount Vernon's closeby gristmill and distillery.
We have visited the Mount Vernon estate and Mount Vernon gardens several times to provide photos and comments below regarding location, parking, picnic areas, child play areas, nearby eateries, shopping, and other nearby attractions.
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About this third page of Mount Vernon photos and comments .... it is all about the delightful doll house size replica of Mount Vernon
that is located on the Mount Vernon estate in the Ford Orientation Center.
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Lots of stuff is at the Ford Orientation Center:
information desk, huge wall mural, auditorium featuring a Mount Vernon information film,
click here to check out our comments and pictures of Ford Orientation Center and other Mount Vernon stuff.
The doll house size replica of Mount Vernon is very helpful for seeing parts of the house not seen in the tour. It is amazing the attention to detail
that is presented in this lovely exhibit. Like tiny leather fire buckets set off in a closet (not visited in the tour) near the main door at the rear of the house.
Up on the third floor, storage rooms are revealed as the roof lifts up and down every few minutes to provide peeks.
Photos are not allowed inside the real mansion,
so this doll house is a second best way to snap photos of the various rooms.
Visit our full size (raw digital images) photos at click here to view the delightful details of each room.
For comparison, below leftmost photo is the rear view of the real mansion and next to it is the doll house size replica.
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And the roof of the doll house replica lifts up every few minutes to show attic rooms not visited on the house tour.
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Rear view of Mansion
The back central rooms on the first and second floors are, on the left side of the hallway there is a bedroom over the game room. On
the right side of the hallway there is a bedroom over the family dining room.
This replica offers a lovely view of the curved hallway stairs. It is best to view the craftsmanship within this
doll house replica by to clicking here and view the full
size photos.
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Above is a narrow view of the third floor bedroom that Martha moved into after her husband died.
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Formal Dining Room Wing
The formal dining room is beautiful. You really need to click here and view the full
size photos to see the details of the room furnishings of this replica.
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Front View of Mansion
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The front central rooms are two
bedrooms to the left of the entry hallway and on the right side another bedroom above the music room.
Below photo are the two left bedrooms and the hallway.
Note in central hallway the narrow staircase from the second to the third floor.
Interesting that Martha chose to spend most of her time in a third floor bedroom after George Washington died.
The green barrel backed chairs along the lower edge of rooms on front side of the mansion are chairs that are present on the front porch of the mansion.
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I noticed the bed lines were prints when I had thought they would had needle point designs. So I asked and
learned that the wealthy households of the 18th century customed ordered printed bed linens
from India. A block print was handstamped on the fabric one color at a time to produce the richly printed designs.
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Private Wing
Visitors often stayed for months at Mount Vernon. To escape them, Martha and George Washington established one wing of the house to be near off limits
unless the visitor was invited into the rooms.
The first floor of this wing held George's study where his clothing was also kept and upstairs they shared a bedroom with
a 6 foot length bed (for the tall George Washington). |
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Martha, short in height, probably had little problems with that wing's staircase between first and second
floors, but George had to duck each time to avoid being whacked by the intrusion of the second story's floor above the staircase.
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