The mansion at George Washington’s Mount Vernon started off as a one-and-a ... according to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. A typical Georgian house is a two-story building ...
George Washington took the oath of office as America’s first president on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City.
George Washington’s 1789 inauguration suit coat is now on display at Mount Vernon. Our first President was intentional with his details: the domestically produced wool suit was meant to promote ...
For a limited time, George Washington’s inaugural coat, which distanced his office from the military and from European ...
Rarely on display because it is so fragile, Mount Vernon is hosting a special public viewing of President George Washington’s historic inaugural coat.
Lacking the kind of voluminous documentation that outlines the lives of George Washington and his family, modern historians studying the African American community at Mount Vernon must pore over ...