The Menokin House
Posted in Tappahannock, Uncategorized on September 25, 2009
On our summer road trip, we visited a friend in Tappahannock, Virginia. While there, we got the grand tour of her work and what a cool job she has! She works for the Menokin Foundation. The Menokin House is the home of Francis Lightfoot Lee, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. It is an 18th cetury house on 500 acres of land. There is a small visitor center where you can see a scale model of the house, explore a little archeaological ”dig in a box,” and fields and fields of corn! As we walked the grounds of the house, I could only imagine how it looked during its prime! The Menokin House is being restored and they are stabilizing the remaining structure.
An original door
A side of the house – You can see the glare of the plexiglass that they are putting up to help preserve it.
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