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Home of Washington, Mount Vernon, VA, circa 1950

Subjects
PatrioticResidences
Card type
Chrome
Date
c. 1950 (Chrome)
Front of Home of Washington, Mount Vernon, VA, circa 1950, c. 1950 chrome postcard
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Back of Home of Washington, Mount Vernon, VA, circa 1950, c. 1950 chrome postcard
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About this postcard

The east front of Mount Vernon stands across a broad lawn, with white clapboard siding, a red roof, a columned piazza, cupola, and brick chimneys framed by large trees. A colonnade connects the house to the dependency buildings at right. The printed caption calls it "HOME OF WASHINGTON" and notes that the first president lived and died there; it presents the estate as a permanent memorial to "the father of our country." Washington's plantation home overlooks the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia. The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association saved and restored the house beginning in 1858, and it remains a historic house museum.

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PublisherMayer Post Card Co.
HOME OF WASHINGTON Mt. Vernon, Va. On the Virginia shore of the Potomac 16 miles south of Washington, D. C. our first President lived and died. It now is maintained by liberty loving Ameri- cans as a permanent memorial to the father of our country.
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Postcard record

PublisherMayer Post Card Co.
SeriesP472
ConditionVery good
Place depictedMount Vernon, VA
NotesChrome-era color photo postcard with a thin white border; light edge wear at corners. No postmark; unused divided-back chrome postcard. Printed caption and publisher imprint; no handwriting.

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Home of Washington, Mount Vernon, VA, circa 1950, postcard, c. 1950. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/home-of-washington-mount-vernon-va-circa-1950. Accessed November 2, 2026.