1201 Washington Ave., Fredericksburg (Independent City), Virginia. County/parish: Fredericksburg.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 04, 1969. NRIS 69000325.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Kenmore, also known as Kenmore Plantation, is a plantation house at 1201 Washington Avenue in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Built in the 1770s, it was the home of Fielding and Elizabeth Washington Lewis and is the only surviving structure from the 1,300-acre (530 ha) Kenmore plantation.
The house is architecturally notable for the remarkable decorative plaster work on the ceilings of many rooms on the first floor. In 1970 the property was declared a National Historic Landmark.
Kenmore is owned and operated as a house museum by The George Washington Foundation (formerly George Washington's Fredericksburg Foundation), and is open daily for guided tours. The Foundation also owns nearby Ferry Farm, where George Washington lived as a child.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680859