Kenmore (Fredericksburg, Virginia)

The Kenmore House is the main building on the former farm of the Kenmore Plantation, located in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the United States of America. It was built in 1769-1775 by Fielding Lewis ( 1725-1781 ) of brick in Georgian style. Lewis lived in the house with his second wife, Betty Washington, sister of George Washington, whom he had married in 1750. Lewis operation in the Revolutionary War, a weapons factory, which aufzehrte his property, and held, among others, a position as Commissary General of Munitions with the rank of Colonel.

The building was at the time it was built outside the city and belonged to a farm, were produced on the tobacco, wheat and corn. It included several farm buildings of wood and a small yard. Two farm buildings were rebuilt in brick in the early 1920s. The main building was built partly by trained craftsmen; the use of brick at the time was particularly expensive because they had to be made ​​on the premises. Several rooms on the ground floor have stucco on the walls and ceilings, which were designed primarily for a pattern book of the English landscape gardener Batty Langley. Comparable stucco can be detected in any other private home in North America from that era of construction. The property was acquired in 1819 by the Gordon family, who gave him the name. From 2001, the building was rich in detail and extensively restored and newly created garden. It is, as the Ferry Farm, run by the George Washington Foundation and is open to the public as a museum.

The property was taken on June 4, 1969 by the National Register of Historic Places ( National Historic Landmark ) with the number 69,000,325 in the registers.

Gordon Cemetery

The Gordon Cemetery in Fredericksburg is a small family cemetery of the Gordon family. In this cemetery 12 members of the family are buried. The cemetery is surrounded by a brick wall about 2 meters high and equipped with a portal of entry.

The cemetery is located at the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Pitt Street, and is in good condition. Just past the cemetery lies a valley, and on the opposite hill, where now the University of Mary Washington is, once ran the front line of the Confederate States.