Photo, Print, Drawing Gunston Hall, 10709 Gunston Road, Lorton, Fairfax County, VA Drawings from Survey HABS VA-141

Title

• Gunston Hall, 10709 Gunston Road, Lorton, Fairfax County, VA

Names

• Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
• Buckland, William
• Mason, George
• Buckland, James
• Morris, Scott, transmitter
• Price, Virginia B, transmitter
• Nichols, Frederick D, photographer
• Brostrup, John O, photographer
• Waterman, Thomas T, historian
• Brown, Bennie, Jr, historian
• Boucher, Jack E, photographer
• Cronenberger, Richard J, project manager
• Lauf, Stephen H, delineator
• Scheetz, Cynthia A, delineator
• Whalen, Daniel P, delineator
• Schara, Mark, delineator

Created / Published

• Documentation compiled after 1933

Headings

• -  houses
• -  Georgian architectural elements
• -  boxwood gardens
• -  formal gardens
• -  gazebos
• -  politicians
• -  historic house museums
• -  war (Revolutionary War)
• -  domestic life
• -  allées
• -  deciduous trees
• -  evergreens
• -  driveways
• -  porches
• -  Virginia -- Fairfax County -- Lorton

Notes

• -  Significance: Gunston Hall is one of the most important examples of Georgian architecture in America. Built c. 1755-59, the house is noted especially for its unexcelled interior woodwork by William Buckland. In addition, Gunston Hall is of prime historical importance as the home of George Mason, father of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. After various ownerships during the 19th and early 20th centuries, the house was acquired by Louis Hertle. Hertle deeded the house and surrounding 556 acres to the Commonwealth of Virginia, and after his death in 1949, Gunston Hall was restored to the period of its builder.
• -  Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-207, FN-208, FN-209, FN-210, FN-211, FN-212, FN-213, FN-300
• -  Survey number: HABS VA-141
• -  Building/structure dates: after. 1754- before. 1759 Initial Construction
• -  National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000832

Medium

• Photo(s): 71
• Color Transparencies: 9
• Measured Drawing(s): 30
• Data Page(s): 56
• Photo Caption Page(s): 5

Call Number/Physical Location

• HABS VA,30-LORT,1-

Source Collection

• Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository

• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Control Number

• va0433

Rights Advisory

• No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://aj.sunback.homes/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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