The Newtown bee., 1893-07-21
THE WHITE CITY.
[FRoM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

A ramble among the state buildings
 brought us to Washington's home. Only
 three of the state edifices are designed to
 be limitations of structures that have ex- -isted or exist still. The Virginia build ing is one, and is fac-simile of Wash ington's home at Mount Vernon; only it
 is smaller, while the Massachusetts state
 building is fac-simile of John Hancock's home, which stood on Beacon Hill, Bos- ton, Mass, only it is two-thirds larger.
 Washington's home was present from
 his brother, Lawrence Washington, and
 was built in the early part of the last century by their fathef.s The main build ing is 94x32, with two stories. and an at- tic, and two story portico, with large
 columns extending.along the whole front,
 being 9f feet long, IS feet high and 14 feet wide. There are two colonnades
 running back from each wing of the
 building to the rear, about 20 feet long
 1-2 feet wide and IL feet high, connect ing each with one and one half story an- nex, 40x20 feet. These are the kitchens.
 There are p rooms in the building, the
 largest of which is the banquet hall,
 31x23 feet. The library is l6xl9 feet
 The main hall, Washington's chamber in
 which he died; Mrs Washington's cham
 ber in the attic, to which she removed
 after her husbands death, and occupied
 on account of its being the only room in
 the house that looked out upon his tomb.
 As you enter the main hall, on the right
 over the door is written, ''Miss Custis'
 Music Room.'' On the left, East Parlor.
 In the music room there is a harpsichord,
 fac-simile of the one Gen George Wash
 ington presented to his adopted daugh- ter, Nen'e Custis. A piano is in the room
 which was owned by Mrs President Mad
 ison in Orange county, Va. There are
 also two paintings in oil on the wall. The
 east parlor contains an old fashioned
 desk, stand and two old chairs, leather
 covered. There are two fine paintings of
 descendants of Mary Washington. One
 painting contains the likeness of Charles
 Francis Cooke and Lucia Howard Cooke, 6xS feet. The other Elise Fielding Miles and Mary Stuart Cooke. In the main hall is large staircase, four feet wide ascending by platforms to the floor above. On the first landing of the stairway is an old Washing on family clock, very in. teresting historical relic. This hall is i. furnished with antique sofas and pictures . of the last century. The rooms upon..the l first floor are ornamented by heavily , carved and nodded wood trimmings and : handsome mantels very antique. Moth , ing modern is seen in it except the peo , pie and the library books by Virginia au thors. The furnishings are the heirloom ! of old Virginia families. In the stat, r banquet hall is small portrait of Wash e ington by Robert King Carter. wilsol v Pears portrait of Col George Washing D ton, from life, at the age of 40. He wa j. then colonel of the 22d regiment yirgini
 militia. He is represented with his lei
 hand resting upon cannon and his righ
 at his side holding his hat. Near him ,, his horse, held by his servant. The rooI e is high with frieze and cornice, and par ' eled ceiling. At the head of the firs + flight of stairs from entrance hall is th d room of Lafayette. As you go round t 1T the right, the first room is Nellie Custis 1T second, Green room. The last has Iii }. tie wheel, (quilt wheeD with distaff. Q i- the third floor it says over three door. ,t "Spare chamber.- The building is pr, U sided over by the lady assistant of th
 Virginia board, Mrs Lucy Preston Beal,
 She has for attendants old Virginia n,
 groes, and undertakes to represent in e'
 cry particular, an old home of the colol
 ial period. How we fingered within il n walls! Once within, it was equivalent IT visit to the real Mount Vernon, tt n home of him who was First in war, fir.
 in peace and first in the hearts of h
 countrymen. We had been nearer to al physically as we spent a night in Fo In Washington, on the opposite side of u q Potomac in '64. The Columbian exp q sition eliminates distance. It brings u le ends of the earth together, and the q ', ures evnnish from the calendar. We II n In the past as well II h the present. 2 tRey X. Gsr1ners Warren, ct