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TITLE:
Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, VA

CALL NUMBER:
HABS VA,30-____,2-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 8   (5 x 7 in.)
Data Page(s): 2 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 2

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.

CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HABS VA-505

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000833

Significance: Originally home of Augustine Washington, George Washington's father, it became the first president's home from 1754 until his death in 1799. Became the object of America's first successful nationwide preservation effort when restored by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union in 1858.

SUBJECTS:
VIRGINIA--Fairfax County--Mount Vernon

COLLECTION:
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.va0436

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
7. VIEW FROM THE NORTHWEST, SHOWING GATES IN FOREGROUND AND HOUSE AT REAR ACROSS GROUNDS
8. VIEW FROM THE SOUTH

CONTROL #:
VA0436

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