Gunston Hall

Gunston Hall called a manor house and the surrounding property, overlooking the Potomac River in Fairfax County in the state of Virginia in the United States. It was the home of the politician and landowner George Mason, called the father of the Bill of Rights.

The property was built in 1755-1759 was the center of a tobacco plantation and was used even after the death of Mason as a residence. Gunston Hall was because of the stylistic elements of Rococo, Chinoiserie and Gothic Revival early on a feature and was accepted in 1960 as a National Historic Landmark on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of 119 historic sites in Virginia. Today, a public museum with exhibitions, the building is among other things the life and work of George Mason and the architecture of the 18th century.