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6 days ago · Purchase a General Admission Ticket or Grounds Pass and plan your visit to Gunston Hall. Don’t forget to take a glance at our calendar of events to see the most up-to-date information about our upcoming programs. Schedule a Tour.
6 days ago · Start your visit in Gunston Hall’s Visitor Center where you can purchase tickets, browse the Museum Shop, and view our newest exhibition Revolutionary Rights.
Gunston Hall is an 18th-century Georgian mansion near the Potomac River in Mason Neck, Virginia, United States. Built between 1755 and 1759 by George Mason, a Founding Father, to be the main residence and headquarters of a 5,500-acre (22 km 2) slave plantation. The home is located not far from George Washington's home.
Built between 1755 and 1758, Gunston Hall was the plantation home of George Mason, a planter and constitutional theorist, who was influential in building the theoretical underpinnings of the American Revolution and of the U.S. Constitution.
Gunston Hall has carefully collected objects that represent the daily life of well-to-do Virginians in the second half of the 18th century. From candlesticks to tea tables to bedsteads, these items help us better imagine the world of the Masons and the enslaved and indentured people who lived on the Gunston Hall plantation.
Gunston Hall was once the center of a 5,500-acre tobacco and corn plantation. Its owner, George Mason IV (1725-1792), was a fourth generation Virginian who became a senior statesman and author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, Mason was among the first to call for such fundamental American liberties as religious toleration and freedom of ...
Gunston Hall is the stately Georgian home of Virginia lawmaker George Mason in Fairfax County on the Potomac River. Mason inherited the land on which Gunston Hall is located from his father in 1735; construction on the house began in 1754.
