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John Tyler Home (Sherwood Forest)
John Tyler bought this 1,200-acre plantation ...
Berkeley
Berkeley, one of Virginia's earliest Georgian...
William Henry Harrison Home (Grouseland)
William Henry Harrison, ninth president of th...
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
Failing re-election in 1840, Martin Van Buren...
The Hermitage
The Hermitage was the plantation home of Andr...
James Monroe Tomb
Hollywood Cemetery is set amongst a series of...
James Monroe Museum & Memorial Library (James Monroe Law Office)
In 1782, only two years after James Monroe be...
Montpelier
Montpelier was the home of James Madison, fou...
Thomas Jefferson Memorial National Memorial
The serene classical Thomas Jefferson Memorial N...
Poplar Forest
Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and third p...
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John Tyler Home (Sherwood Forest)
John Tyler bought this 1,200-acre plantation in 1842, when he was still serving as 10th president of the United States, and it was his retirement home from 1845 until his death in 1862. He expanded the original 1780 frame ...
Berkeley
Berkeley, one of Virginia's earliest Georgian-style plantation homes, is the ancestral home of Benjamin Harrison V, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his son U.S. President William Henry Harrison. On December 14, 1619 Captain John Woodlief arrived ...
William Henry Harrison Home (Grouseland)
William Henry Harrison, ninth president of the United States, built this substantial brick house in 1804, while serving as governor of Indiana Territory. He lived there until he left to take command of American forces in the old Northwest ...
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
Failing re-election in 1840, Martin Van Buren returned to his recently purchased estate only two miles from the small New York village of Kinderhook where he was born and raised. He immediately began planning his return to the White ...
The Hermitage
The Hermitage was the plantation home of Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States, from 1804 until his death in 1845. Completed in 1819, the main house is a two-story Greek Revival, brick mansion. Frontier-born, Jackson was the ...
James Monroe Tomb
Hollywood Cemetery is set amongst a series of wooded hills and dales overlooking the falls of the James River. The site of Hollywood was part of the estate of Belvidere, a country house built by William Byrd III in ...
James Monroe Museum & Memorial Library (James Monroe Law Office)
In 1782, only two years after James Monroe began to read law under Thomas Jefferson, he entered the Virginia House of Delegates. The following year, he took a seat in the Continental Congress, where he served until 1786. That ...
Montpelier
Montpelier was the home of James Madison, fourth president of the United States, for 76 years. Madison was a brilliant political philosopher and pragmatic politician. When he was elected president in 1809 he was already recognized as the “Father ...
Thomas Jefferson Memorial National Memorial
The serene classical Thomas Jefferson Memorial National Memorial honors the third president’s ideals of beauty, science, learning, culture, and liberty. Jefferson truly was a Renaissance man. He was fluent in six languages: Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, Italian, and Anglo-Saxon. ...
Poplar Forest
Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and third president of the United States, began construction of Poplar Forest in 1806. It was a retreat and the purest of his Neoclassical architectural masterpieces. He visited the house in the foothills of the ...
