Gunston Hall
Fairfax County, United States
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
Gunston Hall is an 18th-century Georgian mansion near the Potomac River in Mason Neck, Virginia, built between 1755 and 1759 by George Mason as the main residence and headquarters of a 5,500-acre slave plantation. Its interior woodwork, largely the work of indentured joiner William Buckland, combines rococo, chinoiserie, and Gothic elements, and it is the only house known to have had chinoiserie decoration in colonial America. The house is now a museum owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia and operated with the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America, and it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960.
Movement
- Built
- Type
- plantation
- Heritage
- National Register of Historic Places listed place, Virginia Historic Landmark
- Place
- Fairfax County, United States
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