Mount Vernon Mansion replicas

Mount Vernon Mansion replicas are faithful copies or buildings inspired by Mount Vernon, the mansion of U.S. President George Washington in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Such buildings usually feature Mount Vernon's iconic piazza but might also copy its cupola, distinct dimensions, red-white-and-green color scheme, asymmetrical window distribution, or three-part organization.[1]

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Virginia State Building (1893, demolished), World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois.

George Washington's Mount Vernon and architectural historian Lydia Mattice Brandt began a digital humanities project that collects information on Mount Vernon "replicas." It crowd-sources information and locates Mount Vernon look-alikes on an interactive map.

Exposition buildings

Full-sized replicas of the Mount Vernon mansion were built for six international expositions:[2]

  • 1893 - Virginia State Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois. Demolished.
  • 1915 - Virginia State Building, Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California.[3] Demolished.
  • 1926 - Young Women's Christian Association Building, Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Magaziner, Eberhard & Harris, architects.[4] Demolished.
  • 1931 - United States Building, Exposition Coloniale, Paris, Charles K. Bryant, architect. Relocated to Vaucresson, France.[5]
  • 1932 - New York George Washington Bicentennial Commission Building, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York City, Charles K. Bryant, architect.[6] Demolished.
  • 1933 - Colonial Village, Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, Charles K. Bryant, architect.[7] Relocated to Beverly Shores, Indiana and later demolished.
  • United States Building (1931), Exposition Coloniale, Paris, France.

Residences
  • "Oak Hill" (1790), Annandale, Virginia.
  • "Hill-Stead" (1901), Farmington, Connecticut.
  • Little Mount Vernon - Built in 1937 in Eutawville, South Carolina for Mr. George Weatherford and his wife, Mrs. Emma Cross Weatherford. Later, their daughter, Carolyn, was married on the North front lawn. The wedding is remembered as one of the biggest celebrations the town of Eutawville has ever seen. Little Mount Vernon was abandoned in the late 1990s and sustained damage over the years due to weather and vandalism. The house was purchased in March 2018 and repairs are currently underway. The new local owners hope to restore this Mount Vernon inspired home to its former glory and open it as a venue where couples can host their own version of Carolyn's wedding celebration for years to come.

Other buildings
  • Rainier Chapter House (1920–1925), DAR, Seattle, Washington.
  • Mount Vernon Office (1987), Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.
  • Washington Hall (1999), American Village, Montevallo, Alabama.
  • George Washington Inn (2008), Port Angeles, Washington.

References
  1. Brandt, Lydia (2016). First in the Homes of His Countrymen: George Washington's Mount Vernon in the American Imagination. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. ISBN 9780813939254.
  2. Lydia Mattice Brandt, Re-living Mount Vernon: Replicas and Memories of America's Most Famous House (Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 2011).
  3. Virginia State Building (1915), from San Francisco Public Library.
  4. Sesquicentennial Reproduction of Mount Vernon (1926), from Philadelphia Architects and Buildings.
  5. Vaucresson House, Ile-de-France, from Christie's International Real Estate.
  6. Official handbook of the replica of Mount Vernon, erected in Prospect Park, Brooklyn by the City of New York Commission for the George Washington Bicentennial, 1732-1932. from WorldCat.
  7. Colonial Village, Century of Progress, from Postcardy.
  8. Mount Vernon, from Allie Beth Allman & Associates.
  9. Rainier Chapter House, from Daughters of the American Revolution.
  10. Washington Hall, from American Village.
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