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“experience life of the 18th century”
In 1772, George Washington purchased a house from Michael Robinson in Fredericksburg, Virginia for his mother. Mary Ball Washington spent her last seventeen years in this comfortable home. The white frame house sits on the corner of Charles and Lewis Streets and was in walking distance to Kenmore, home of Mary's daughter Betty Fielding Lewis. Visitors today can tour the house and see Mary Washington's "best dressing glass." They can explore the garden and visit the original kitchen (a rare surviving 18th-century outbuilding). They can also visit the Mary Washington House Museum Store which features a lovely collection of gifts to celebrate tea drinking, gardening, 18th-century decorative arts, and Virginia products.
A quick tour but an interesting one. We were early for a tour, so we walked around the garden which was pretty and then sat on the porch until it was time. The tour has a few different tour guides... Read more
After we left her grave site, Tony and I stopped at her home located just a few blocks from her daughter's home, Kenmore Plantation The house was closed to tours. It was so cold out only 25... Read more
The Mary Washington House was part of our 3 part ticket, which we purchased to tour this, the Hugh Mercer Apothecary Shop and the Rising Sun Tavern for $15 a person. My mother, aunt and... Read more
Mary Washington House
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