Mount Vernon Mansion replicas

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

Mount Vernon Mansion replicas are replica buildings or buildings inspired by Mount Vernon, the mansion of U.S. President George Washington in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.

Exposition buildings

Full-sized replicas of the Mount Vernon mansion were built for six international expositions:^[1]

• 1893 - Virginia State Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois. Demolished.
• 1915 - Virginia State Building, Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California.^[2] Demolished.
• 1926 - Young Women's Christian Association Building, Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Magaziner, Eberhard & Harris, architects.^[3] Demolished.
• 1931 - United States Building, Exposition Coloniale, Paris, Charles K. Bryant, architect. Relocated to Vaucresson, France.^[4]
• 1932 - New York George Washington Bicentennial Commission Building, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York City, Charles K. Bryant, architect.^[5] Demolished.
• 1933 - Colonial Village, Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, Charles K. Bryant, architect.^[6] Relocated to Beverly Shores, Indiana.

Residences

• "Hill-Stead" (1901), Alfred Atmore Pope residence, Farmington, Connecticut, Theodate Pope Riddle, architect. Now Hill-Stead Museum.
• "Bushfield" (c.1760), Westmoreland County, Virginia. The Mount Vernon-inspired cupola and 2-story portico were added c.1910. Architect Waddy Butler Wood restored the house in 1916.
• "Mount Vernon" (1930), H. L. Hunt residence, 4009 West Lawther Drive, Dallas, Texas.^[7]
• "Oak Hill" (1790), Annandale, Virginia. The Mount Vernon-inspired 2-story portico was added c.1940.

Other buildings

• Rainier Chapter House (1920–25), Daughters of the American Revolution, 800 East Roy Street, Seattle, Washington, Daniel Riggs Huntington, architect.^[8]
• Washington's Birthday Celebration Association Building, 1819 East Hillside Road, Laredo, Texas.
• Mount Vernon Office (1987), Arlington Cemetery, 2900 State Road, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.
• Washington Hall (1999), American Village, 3727 AL-119, Montevallo, Alabama.^[9]
• George Washington Inn (2008), 939 Finn Hall Road, Port Angeles, Washington.

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  Rainier Chapter House (1920–25), DAR, Seattle, Washington.
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  United States Building (1931), Exposition Coloniale, Paris, France.
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  Mount Vernon Office (1987), Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.
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  Washington Hall (1999), American Village, Montevallo, Alabama.
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  George Washington Inn (2008), Port Angeles, Washington.

References

1. Lydia Mattice Brandt, Re-living Mount Vernon: Replicas and Memories of America's Most Famous House (Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 2011).
2. Virginia State Building (1915), from San Francisco Public Library.
3. Sesquicentennial Reproduction of Mount Vernon (1926), from Philadelphia Architects and Buildings.
4. Vaucresson House, Ile-de-France, from Christie's International Real Estate.
5. 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.
6. Colonial Village, Century of Progress, from Postcardy.
7. Mount Vernon, from Allie Beth Allman & Associates.
8. Rainier Chapter House, from Daughters of the American Revolution.
9. Washington Hall, from American Village.