The Kenmore Mansion: A Treasure of Architecture and History
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Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia
Dive into the details of a 1700s mansion, built by Betty Washington (sister of the first US president) and Fielding Lewis, a member of the Southern Aristocracy.
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It is a gift to history that this house was never destroyed.
Americans have a history of tearing down significantly important or beautiful buildings and replacing them with a crappy buildings. It's the greddy developers doing it, but the general public allows it.
I grew up in a suburb of LA built in the 50s. There was a bunch if space age googie buildings with cool neon signs. Developers didnt want to pay for the cost of fixing them, so they tore them down and replaced them with generic fastfood buildings. The space age neighborhood I grew up in no longer exist
It's nice to know that the Kenmore House still exists for people to enjoy!!! 👍👍🙂
The ceilings were stunning! Thanks for sharing.
What still blows my mind is all that plaster and woodwork were done by hand without any computers or machines but, by hand by artisans and how good it still looks today.
This is a lovely piece of Americana and I’m glad that very early on the decision to preserve this home was made and kept in place. Personally I love both the drawing room and the dining room. Love the intricate details of the ceilings. The bedroom with the cozy dining space by the fireplace is lovely too. It breaks my heart when these pieces of history get demolished. Thanks Ken you are so wonderful to listen to !! Always wonderful history lessons😊☺️❤️❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦
The house is so nice and bright inside! Lovely details and craftsmanship!
Wonderful stuff, I'm glad it's still standing. 👍
My Georgian loving heart was thrilled by this video! Thank you! Without a doubt the plaster work on the ceilings and walls is beyond beautiful and my other favorite part of the house besides it’s architecture. The idea of keeping the walls free of “clutter” and putting the exquisite plaster work on ceilings and around the fireplaces greatly appeals to me.
Knowing how brutal the battle at Fredericksburg was in the Civil War I’m so glad that this house wasn’t blown to smithereens, especially because it served as a hospital. I bless whoever the people were who chose to allow this gorgeous house to stand!
So very well done.per usual. Thank you!
Ken thanks again for sharing another beautiful home with us
The plaster work on the ceilings is fantastic! I always note how 18th Century kitchens appear so backward compared to the elegance of the other rooms in homes of the period. Nice this one was saved.
The "smaller bedroom" is huge by today's standards. Nice video!
Plasterwork is exceptionally fine, thanks for another great video!
Love Kenmore but there are many other beautiful historical homes in Fredericksburg, Virginia. I know because I used to live there. My favorite is Chatham Manor. It is a must see! After that, stop by Carl's for the best soft frozen custard around for over 75 years. Have dinner at Sammy T's. You won't be disappointed. There is so much to see and do in that lovely town. Can't wait to visit there again (thank goodness I only live 4 hours away).
The restoration process must have grueling but the mansion is lovely.
This is my favorite house that Ive seen featured on your channel. Lovely!
I saw it quite a few years ago. At that time, it was partially restored and they served gingerbread in the kitchen.
It means so much to me that you use all of the terminology like fluted pilasters. Very educational.
In the dining room radial plaster work (ceiling), I wonder who decided to feature the Greek god Apollo, and why .
Overall, the ceilings were fantastic in this home.
I love primitive kitchens, and since the kitchen is the heart of the home, the kitchen again is my favorite room!
Thank you for this video.
I really liked that first bedroom. It seemed very homey.
The ceilings and attention to details 🙂
The symmetry of the outside is like satisfaction nirvana! Every side is more matching than the next. But I think I’d go crazy trying to keep up that perfection!
Beautiful house.
The restoration is so white! The detail of the plaster is brilliant. The reality of a house of this time is the effects of smoke in the rooms. From the fireplace, the lamps and other sources of heat and light. Living in such a mansion would have been grand, the things I speak of were just and excepted cost of luxury life at that time.
The ceiling in the drawing room with all those medallions is fantastic.
The plaster work is amazing,!
Love the perfect symmetrical appearance of the facades. There's sonething about symmetry that calms the mind.
I love that foggy photo of the front of this home. I love this house
I really appreciate it when you include a floorplan. You didn't mention what the dependencies were used for. Summer kitchen?
I find all of these videos so interesting as I never thought about these houses, their inhabitants and their slaves.
This house is so modest and understated compared to those Guilded Age monsters!
Love these first bedroom.
I can't make out the writing on the floor plan, if I understand right though, the kitchen is actually in the house?
Sometime I would love it if you would go into more detail as to what a "dependency" is. Those two separate building contained ... what? Servant's quarters? Doubtful, since the servants were slaves. An outside kitchen? Nope, we saw the kitchen inside the main house. Not sheds or carriage houses. Guest houses? Maybe. You described them with just a few words, but that opened up a whole bunch of questions for me. Perhaps you could point me to an online resource where I can learn more about this kind of thing?
The drawing room.
Being from Fredericksburg, this is only one of many beautiful historic homes and sites in the area.
If I could design my dream home, it would look like this! America lost something when they strayed from this architecture!
Can you do one on the Robert Lee house?
Is the drawing room the same thing as a living room?
No air conditioning? Not interested 😂😂😂
Did anyone else notice the cameras? I spotted 4
Yes there are cameras. It's been restored as a museum. There's security features in museums.
Was this film only black and white or were all the rooms originally painted stark white?
It would help me to understand why this house is a treasure by comparison with a typical house of it's day. I want to appreciate it, it's pretty, but I don't think I am appreciating it fully.
Great post. I'm impressed you made note of the enslaved people who maintained the home and the work they did to line the family's pockets. Happy Juneteenth!
Oh, the poor enslaved people! Better to have lived in a dusty west African grass hut, hungry, and blind from the bite of a tsetse fly.
Think of the great opportunities their children missed in 19th century Ghana. Oh, the misery of living in America.
George Washington slept here?
Not excusing the slave labor. Love the plaster work! Beautiful!
Was it repainted in white...hmmmm
They came from money and what it seems, their parents were close cousins.😂
“… meals were prepared by …”. That must have been a little difficult to say while keeping your signature, upbeat tone.
It’s a nice house, and a significant part of history in any case.
talking about certain things on CZcams will get them shadow banned. This is one of them.
While I know they’re period accurate, those screaming yellows, flaming turquoise and Pepto Bismol pinks make me want to cry.
"Prepared by enslaved persons" Nice gloss over Ken
They planted them gardens alright, to obscure the view of their sins 🤨
"He was a member of the Planter Class ... His family had made a fortune on the backs of others." (Just say, "slavery."🤷♂)
You can't say that word without getting shadow banned on this platform. It is sad but true. This is probably why many education youtubers are moving over to nebula.
Some rooms at Mt Vernon are 'loud' too.