The $40 million preservation project at the first president’s home included designing and installing a new HVAC system, ...

It has been years of planning and execution, but now the majority of the largest renovation ever at George Washington’s Mount ...

Back in 1797, after stepping down from the presidency, George Washington found himself at a crossroads on his Mount Vernon ...

Archeologists have made a remarkable find at George Washington’s Mount Vernon in the ground beneath the cellar — two sealed bottles containing plump cherries. The discovery was made recently during ...

After two years of renovations, the first and second floors of George and Martha Washington’s mansion at Mount Vernon have reopened to visitors. The $40 million preservation project at the first ...

History As It Happens host Martin Di Caro visits the George Washington Presidential Library’s new executive director Lindsay Chervinsky to talk about her vision for this historically vital institution ...

Most people associate George Washington with cherry trees. Supposedly, a young George Washington confessed to his dad that he had damaged a cherry tree with a hatchet. The story is used to stress the ...

This is the first of two podcast episodes recorded at the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. Part two will be published on Thursday. When you walk into the reading room here, it ...