Open 365 days a year, Mount Vernon is located just 15 miles south of Washington DC.
From the mansion to lush gardens and grounds, intriguing museum galleries, immersive programs, and the distillery and gristmill. Spend the day with us!
Discover what made Washington "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen".
The Mount Vernon Ladies Association has been maintaining the Mount Vernon Estate since they acquired it from the Washington family in 1858.
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The Washington Library is open to all researchers and scholars, by appointment only.
Papal Secretary of State; later became Pope Pius XII (elected to the papacy in 1939, died in 1958).
Came to Mount Vernon with: Bishop Francis Spellman (later Cardinal Archbishop of New York); Count Enrico Galeazzi, the Architect of Vatican City; Monsignor Egidio Vagnozzi, Secretary of the Apostolic Delegate (later Cardinal Apostolic Delegate to the USA, 1958-1967); and Amleto, Cardinal Cigognani, Apostolic Delegate to the USA, 1933-1958.
