George Washington's Mount Vernon Visit with Lucy!

 

George Washington's Mount Vernon

https://www.mountvernon.org

Visitor's Centre - so cool!


 On 5th October, Lucy and I met a curator at George Washington's Mount Vernon because we wanted to receive information about their slavery history. We met with the curator, Jessie MacLeod who has been working there for over 10 years - she worked her way up from assistant curator to associate curator.


We got tons of information on their exhibition based on the slaves because that is our main topic for Mount Clare. We have got information on who the slaves were at Mount Clare but no records of where the cabins were on the land.


Lucy has been amazing on this trip because we both had a great time meeting with a curator then we took a tour of the mansion and surroundings. We were in groups getting information from different interpreters in each room, and then we took a self-guided tour outside to see the slave cabins.

Mansion's Interior:


This mansion was the most beautiful mansion I have ever seen! It has only been developed three times - https://www.mountvernon.org/the-estate-gardens/the-mansion/.


What I loved about this mansion is that three rooms specifically have multiple beautiful wallpapers!




Mansion's Exterior:





  • This is the front (top of article) of George Washington's Mount Vernon Mansion - the back is in restoration mode. All the scaffolding was up because it was time to have the back restored to its former glory!
  • The bottom right picture shows the back of the house with the scaffolding up, the photo was taken from the inside...
  • I mean... this mansion has got an amazing view across the Potomac River - this estate/mansion is placed in the middle of nowhere and when we were there - it was so peaceful!
  • We wandered around and looked at the slave's cabin and the outbuildings afterwards on the way back to the museum because we had to head back to Mount Clare's house for our next meeting with a couple of people who were going to help us with the open day.
The estate includes - a smokehouse, washhouse, stables, coach house, the wharf (top left image) and of course the Mansion!
We wandered around and looked at the slave's cabin and the outbuildings afterwards on the way back to the museum because we had to head back to Mount Clare's house for our next meeting with a couple of people who are going to help us with the open day.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Day 9, 10 & 11: Taking Time to Myself

Image
  Those last few days, I have been taking some time for myself and started working on the 3D Design project for Mount Clare House. It took me a while to get my thinking around the plans because I was told that the plans were wrong by the architects and I had to make sure they would be correct before sending them to Lucy and Kritsa. This is the set of floor plans that I was given... Front View Rear View As you can see that the plans are not accurate at all! I had to research the online website of Mount Clare, the book and my images to see if everything is in place?! As well as using old historic photos and drawings of Mount Clare So I have been doing this for three days because I wanted to get started on the first designs out of 5 different building layouts. This is number one: On Day 11, it was again another one of my favourite days where I got to work with all the details of the house to put it all into this program... This is the overview of my work on Mount Clare House.
Read more

New York, New York! 🎶

Image
  Hello everyone!! So sorry that I have been so quiet over the last couple of weeks as I have been busy working and taking multiple weekend trips! On the weekend of 16th October , my sponsor and his family invited and gave me a lifetime trip to NYC as part of their family trip - my sponsor wanted me to experience what NYC is like before I leave to return to the UK! The first night (16th) we arrived in New York by 1 pm, checked into our very posh hotel then went off for a walk through Central Park and went by our very first museum of the day! Central Park Central Park was absolutely stunning this fall! All the leaves turned into beautiful colours and the skyline of NYC is one of the best views you have ever seen in your life!! We walked around the park for maybe 30 mins or so, grabbed food then headed to The Metropolitan Museum of Art for the day before heading down to Broadway to see a show.
Read more