For a limited time, George Washington’s inaugural coat, which distanced his office from the military and from European royalty, will be on display at Mount Vernon. By Alexander Nazaryan Fashion ...

The first floor of George Washington’s Mount Vernon will be open for the public to observe preservation work in progress on three days later this month, including Presidents Day, Feb. 17.

George Washington’s 1789 inauguration suit coat is now on display at Mount Vernon. Our first President was intentional with his details: the domestically produced wool suit was meant to promote ...

Washington’s birthday – also lovingly called Presidents’ Day – a holiday where mattresses are somehow as celebrated as ...

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George ... Washington's inauguration was held in New York City. Before the inauguration, Washington traveled over 200 miles from his home in Mount Vernon ...

Nearly 300 years since George Washington ... around the peach orchard at Mount Vernon, his home in Virginia. As Alexis Coe, a presidential historian and Washington biographer, put it, “He ...

On April 30, 1789, George Washington took ... public display because of its fragility, Mount Vernon is hosting a special public viewing of President Washington’s historic inaugural attire ...

"Absolutely," said presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky, executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library in Mount Vernon, Va. "The thing that's really interesting about ...

As the nation prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday in 2026, spend 2025 visiting these 12 Revolutionary War sites in New ...

February, of course, marks Presidents’ Day and George Washington’s Mount Vernon, easy to reach from ... you visit and pick up the Adventure Map, complete with colorful pictures and written ...

“The Old Farmer’s Almanac has predicted the weather since our founding in 1792 — when George Washington was president and actively farming at Mount Vernon,” according to the almanac’s websit ...