1200 Charles St., Fredericksburg (Independent City), Virginia. County/parish: Fredericksburg.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 05, 1975. NRIS 75002111.
2 contributing buildings.
The Mary Washington House, at 1200 Charles Street in Fredericksburg, Virginia, is the house in which George Washington's mother, Mary Ball Washington, resided towards the end of her life. It is now operated as an 18th-century period historic house museum, one of several museums in Fredericksburg operated by Washington Heritage Museums. Today it displays 18th-century furniture, and her personal possessions, such as her "best dressing glass” (her mirror).
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680855