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Memorial House at Wakefield, George Washington Birthplace, Virginia, circa 1955

Subjects
Monuments & MemorialsResidences
Card type
Chrome
Date
c. 1945 (Linen)
Front of Memorial House at Wakefield, George Washington Birthplace, Virginia, circa 1955, Colonial Beach, VA, USA, c. 1945 chrome postcard
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Back of Memorial House at Wakefield, George Washington Birthplace, Virginia, circa 1955, Colonial Beach, VA, USA, c. 1945 chrome postcard
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About this postcard

The picture shows the brick Memorial House at Wakefield, the George Washington Birthplace National Monument in Westmoreland County, Virginia, with its dormer windows, twin chimneys and a small lattice-sided outbuilding under a large bare tree. The card's own caption names the site as Washington's birthplace; the original plantation house where he was born in 1732 burned in 1780, and the colonial-style Memorial House seen here was erected in the early 1930s by the Wakefield National Memorial Association to commemorate the site, which became a national monument in 1930.

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PublisherHaynes Distributing Co.
Wakefield, Va. - Birthplace of Washington --- WAKEFIELD, BIRTHPLACE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON (1732) This historic mansion near Colonial Beach, Va. was made a National Monument in 1930. Color Photo by Herbert Lanks Genuine Natural Color Made By DEXTER PRESS, Inc., West Nyack, N. Y. POST CARD PLACE STAMP HERE Pub. by Haynes Distributing Co., 2930 Fleetwood Ave., SW., Roanoke, Va. 4407B
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PublisherHaynes Distributing Co.
ConditionVery good
Place mentionedColonial Beach, VA
Place mentionedDexter Press, Inc., West Nyack, NY
PublisherHaynes Distributing Co., Roanoke, VA
NotesChrome-era color photo with a thin white border; slight edge wear. Unused card — no postmark, no handwriting, no address. Divided-back chrome-era postcard ("Genuine Natural Color Made By Dexter Press"), circa 1950s; caption notes the mansion became a National Monument in 1930. Clean, slight edge wear only.

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Memorial House at Wakefield, George Washington Birthplace, Virginia, circa 1955, postcard, c. 1945. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/memorial-house-at-wakefield-george-washington-birthplace-vir. Accessed October 25, 2026.