![]() ![]() In 1890, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, later named Preservation Virginia acquired the Mary Washington House and saved it from certain destruction. The President-to-be came to this home to receive his mother's blessing before attending his inauguration in 1789. Washington and found her working in her garden. Tradition has it that, during the Revolution, General Lafayette came by the home seeking a visit with Mrs. The white frame house sits on the corner of Charles and Lewis Streets and was in walking distance to Kenmore, home of Mary's daughter Betty Washington Lewis. Mary Ball Washington spent her last seventeen years in this comfortable home. 1772 In 1772, George Washington purchased a house from Michael Robinson in Fredericksburg, Virginia for his mother. ![]()
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