Mt. Vernon and Custis Lee Mansion


The well-known home of our first President. The last sentence of the description is particularly poignant.

 

 

 

Perhaps it is the age of this postcard folder that makes the disposition of the Custis-Lee Mansion sound a bit underplayed to our modern ears: the "military cemetery" that the estate became is none other than Arlington National Cemetery. The mansion pictured here is still stands on the cemetery grounds.