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Travel back in time with Virginia’s executive mansion, the nation’s oldest continuously occupied governor’s mansion.

First occupied in 1813 by Governor James Barbour, Virginia’s executive mansion offers a lens into America’s complicated past. More than fifty “first families” have occupied the home. Remembered today through the residence’s Cottage and memorial garden, the Jackson and Valentine families were enslaved at the mansion prior to the Civil War. The Federal style mansion, little altered architecturally over its long history, has accommodated guests such as the Marquis de Lafayette, the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), and Winston Churchil. In 1990, Virginia’s executive mansion became the residence of L. Douglas Wilder, the first elected Black governor in America since Reconstruction.

This program was sponsored by Erin Forrey Design. The 2024 Grand Homes & Gardens Speaker Series Sponsor is Bryn Mawr Trust.

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