| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-288) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; PART I: LANDSCAPES OF THE REPUBLIC; Patterns; 1. An Uncommon Place; 2. The Washingtons of Virginia, 1657-1757; Building; 3. A New Mount Vernon, 1758-1773; 4. "Things Not Quite Orthodox": George Washington, Architect; 5. The Third Edition-with Revisions-1774-1787; PART II: TOWARD DEMOCRACY; The Builders; 6. Slaves and Overseers; 7. Artisans; 8. Undertakers and Managers; The Uses of a Great House; 9. At Home and Away, 1788-1799; 10. To Give and Bequeath; Afterword: Redivivus, 1800-Present; Appendix: House-Building in Eighteenth-Century Virginia. |
| Summary |
George Washington's Mount Vernon brings together--for the first time--the details of Washington's 45-year endeavor to build and perfect Mount Vernon. In doing so it introduces us to a Washington few of his contemporaries knew, and one little noticed by historians since. Here we meet the planter/patriot who also genuinely loved building, a man passionately human in his desire to impress on his physical surroundings the stamp of his character and personal beliefs. As chief architect and planner of the countless changes made at Mount Vernon over the years, Washington began by imitating accepted m. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Homes and haunts -- Virginia -- Fairfax County.
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Washington, George, 1732-1799. |
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Virginia -- Fairfax County. |
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Washington, George, 1732-1799. |
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Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Dalzell, Lee Baldwin.
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| Added Title |
Mount Vernon |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Dalzell, Robert F. George Washington's Mount Vernon. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 0195136284 (OCoLC)66906214 |
| ISBN |
9780199761050 (electronic book) |
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0199761051 (electronic book) |
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0195136284 |
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9780195136289 |
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