![]() ![]() ![]() Between 17, Washington again doubled the size of his home, adding the second story wings before connecting them to the main house with quadrant colonnades in the Palladian style. ![]() In 1757, he began the first series of improvements to Mount Vernon, razing and then doubling the size of the original plantation house built by his father. The Mansion & Gardens: Living in Republican StyleĪrchitectural historians generally believe that the mansion was built to Washington's own design. Over the next forty years, Washington worked tirelessly to grow his tobacco plantation from 2,000 acres to 8,000 while expanding the plantation house from six rooms to a mansion of twenty-one. She leased Mount Vernon for £82 a year to her first husband's devoted half-brother, George Washington (1732-1799), and on her death in 1761 the plantation passed into his sole possession. He left the estate to his widow, Anne Fairfax (1728-1761), who within the year had remarried Colonel George Lee (1714-1761). In 1752, Lawrence died at the small plantation house at Mount Vernon, but he had spent little time there since returning from military service nine years previously. ![]()
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