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100 1 $aDalzell, Robert F.
245 10 $aGeorge Washington's Mount Vernon :$bat home in Revolutionary America /$cRobert F. Dalzell, Jr., Lee Baldwin Dalzell.
246 30 $aMount Vernon
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1999.
300 $a1 online resource (xix, 300 pages) :$billustrations, maps
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 244-288) and index.
588 0 $aPrint version record.
505 0 $aCover; 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.
520 $aGeorge 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.
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