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1501 Broadway Street, Mount Vernon, IL 62864
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Mount Vernon is privately owned and will remain open in the case of a government shutdown.
1501 Broadway Street, Mount Vernon, IL 62864
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Published by the University of Virginia Press in 2016, First in the Homes of His Countrymen chronicles Mount Vernon’s role in historic preservation and popular American culture since George Washington’s death in 1799. Diving deep into America’s obsession with the building, Lydia Mattice Brandt explains how and why people copy Washington’s home more often than any other historic place in the United States and reveals the astonishingly wide range of interpretations of this singular mansion.