RARE Look at Restoring George Washington's Blue Room
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- When guests walk around George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate, they will notice that the rooms and buildings are not only in pristine condition but still look as if they are in the 18th century. This is due to the hard work of our preservation department, who are constantly researching and restoring the historic parts of the estate to keep them as they were in 1799. In this latest vlog, we meet with Caroline Spurry as she walks us through the long, detailed but ultimately rewarding process of restoring the Blue Room in George Washington's Mansion.
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I've been there and the estate is in magnificent condition. Great work Caroline Spurry and the rest of the preservation, restoration and maintenance staff! Your work is for the ages. Thank You!
mrfester42 thank you for the compliments! We are lucky to have such a dedicated and talented preservation team!
If I would have seen this in highschool, I definitely would have gone to college for this type of work. Amazing and so important to our culture.
George would be so happy with your careful preservation of his beloved Mount Vernon. Thank you! I was able to visit many years ago, and it was a highlight of my life adventures! 💕🙏🇺🇸
I love the style of the wallpaper, that place has so much hard work put in to it to keep it as it was when George lived in it
That's nice to go back and feel the 1800 be part of history..and see how was it..back in those days..
Thanks to everyone who is keeping American history alive.
LOVE IT!! AND GEORGE CAN RIP KNOWING THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY THAT TAKE PRIDE IN THE UP KEEP OF HIS PROPERTY!!!!
Until armageddon.
Superb treasure preservation.
I love watching restorations and homes being built
Beautiful. George Washington was an awesome courageous man.
I thought the bedrooms were so classy, minimal, elegant.
You did a good job about history and learning
I just subscribed this month. I'm loving this channel & admiring all the careful work, research & the high quality of your videos. Thank You to everyone involved !! You're awesome!!
Thank you for the kind words and subscribing. Stay tuned we have some great new objects and preservation highlights coming up in the coming weeks!
So interesting!!! Thank you !
I want to know more about how they chose that wallpaper pattern.
The reproduction blue wallpaper and border are based upon a 1790s pattern found in the Reveillon wallpaper collection. The curatorial team here at Mount Vernon considered the date, country of origin, and color when choosing this wallpaper. Here is an excerpt from our blog about the Blue Room's wallpaper: "George Washington’s papers confirmed that there was a major re-papering campaign throughout the Mansion in 1797, when the Washingtons returned from Philadelphia at the conclusion of his term as President. Among the suppliers Washington turned to were two Philadelphia merchants who dealt in highly-fashionable French wallpapers: William Poyntell and Georges Bertault. We also had definite evidence that the Washingtons had used French papers in the Mansion. Surviving fragments of the wallpaper border used in the New Room were a product of the royal French wallpaper manufactory started by Jean-Baptiste Réveillon and later continued by the partnership of Jacquemart et Bénard... Looking for a blue-ground, French paper from the 1790s, we found an appropriate one in a Réveillon/Jacquemart et Bénard pattern book in the collection of Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris."
You can read more of the blog post here: www.mountvernon.org/blog/2017/07/high-fashion-for-the-blue-room-french-wallpaper .
You can also see the pattern chosen here: www.akg-images.fr/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2UMESQ50MZ57N&SMLS=1&RW=1600&RH=732&POPUPPN=35&POPUPIID=2UMDHU32GGBB
So very cool!
I love your little National Treasure 3? Easter egg!
Thank you
Thank god there's a trust like you guys that are doing these places are up and restoring them the way they should look there's so many mansions that have been abandoned and left to rack and ruin I think it's pretty bad of the government letting his places go so that people can destroy the history that's inside them and Nick whatever they want to sell it these places could help the homeless or people that don't have a lot of money somewhere to live
Wow!
I loved the previous blue paint more.
This is much better than the hall with the terrible gloss paint. The wallpaper is gorgeous
These are great vlog posts. Thanks for posting.
Excellent. Great work!
awesome
Beautiful wallpaper..is this the original pattern George and Martha used
No wallpaper fragments survived from the room, but our researchers applied their best knowledge to locate a pattern that is very likely the pattern. You can read more about the research here: www.mountvernon.org/blog/2017/07/high-fashion-for-the-blue-room-french-wallpaper
Will there be more work on The Blue Room?
Yes, in the coming weeks our collections team will remove the current wallpaper installation and install the furnishings, artwork and decorative elements to the room. Stay tuned for future updates.
thank you good vid
Glad you enjoyed it Drake!
love all of them
Non-Subject Question: Does MV have any plans to fully excavate ALL of the slave graves? When I visited MV I seem to remember that he grave area was packed in with bricks??? It was kind of appaling, actually. What prompted me to ask the question is because I know in other types of centuries old excavations graves are dug up and x-rayed to determine the causes of death. Similarly, do you have any intention of having any slave bodies examined and the results publicly made available? Just curious.
Some very good questions. There is a multi-year archaeology project happening at the African American Cemetary, most importantly, we are not exhuming any of the bodies, the team is digging down just a few inches to reveal the grave shafts to identify the position, size and direction of a burial site. These grave sites were unmarked and it wasn't until technology advanced to allow ground penetrating radar that we were able to get a sense of the location of these grave sites. The ongoing archaeology work is helping to confirm the sometimes false positives from the radar. You can learn more about the project in detail on our website and I definitely would recommend visiting the top link on that page "Forgotten No Longer" which has a timeline of the work. www.mountvernon.org/preservation/archaeology/slave-burial-ground-research/
Regards...
Is there an6 original features left? I can’t see any patina
Hi Simon, the wood trim, the mantle and the floor boards are all original. There's no patina on those items because we do apply a fresh coat of paint to them. Does this answer your question?
George Washington's Mount Vernon. Thanks for answering, what is your philosophy on restauration. Is there any original or 19th century paintings or decorations in the house?
Hi Simon, many of the furniture items are original, for example the sideboards in the New Room and dining room, Washington's bed, the furniture in his Study. Occasionally we also have to make replicas of items, for example the harpsichord is undergoing this process now. Replicas are used when the object comes to a point where it no longer can stay in the Mansion due to preservation concerns, when we take the original objects off-view they go into our collection storage facility where they are maintained but still available for study by researchers. Other pieces of furniture are period correct and are based on the best documentary evidence we have at the time. For example the dining room table was determined to be square so we found a set of tables that matched the dimensions and features form an inventory record of financial papers.
There are a few original paintings in the house, mostly in the New Room, Front Parlor and Study. If you look at our virtual tour online you can study these in greater detail. The majority of etchings are reproductions, the originals are in our collections, but due to the climate in the Mansion are not kept on display. There are no 19th century paintings as the house is preserved at the time of Washington's death in 1799. However we do have several 19th century pieces in our collection. www.mountvernon.org/preservation/collections-holdings/browse-the-museum-collections/
Where's the bathrooms ?
I hope GW knows that his home is being taken care of.
History: what we want to avoid and what we want to emulate. Quite right.
So did you mix your own wheat paste for the wallpaper? And roll the paste on to the paper,with a roller? Come on!!!!!
Hey pretty cool !
"populate this color" is that what she said?
I wonder if they used linseed oil paint on the windows.
Soon to be the Cream Room?
ted cole In Washington's inventory notations he refers to the color of the room not by the wall color but by the fabric and textiles (ie wallpaper and furnitre coverings) in the room. The blue bedchamber gets its name from the wallpaper in thia upstairs room.
Many thanks for both the information and the reply, my friend... Good luck on this simply fascinating project of yours.
i thought wall paper didn't come into use until the victorian era
Wallpaper is quite older than that. History Magazine has a great general write-up: www.history-magazine.com/wallpaper.html
thanks i'll check that out
Hi
IS this a government funded setup? IF so: This is the type of stuff I can get behind in terms of where my tax dollars are going
Are they a equal opportunity employer?
HI Derrick, we most definitely are and are always looking for great people to join our team. You can see all open positions on our website: www.mountvernon.org/about/employment/
What kind of stupid question is that? Of course a museum in this modern age is an equal opportunity employer. I think your question is really a political statement but you never come on out with it
@@ednakelley814 wow asking cause I didn't know smart guy...
@@MrBrownnn696 How could they not be?
I think he was just trying to make a funny because Washington owned slaves
sorry, but you keep doing it... you completely skip over some of the interesting details of historical research.
where did you get the wallpaper patern from?... was it the original design?... if the original wallpaper were still on the wall, you shouldn't have had problems figuring out which on is the blue room... it just doesn't really add up.
did you get the wallpaper from ikea?
Every sentence she says ends in her elevating her voice at the end, asifshes a a king a question. So VALLY GIRL....but so inappropriate.
I'm surprised all the restoration was done and dusted. After all this is for the US. First President. The aesthetics of ALL that blue is another question. Yikes.
Yeah but they are taking liberties by assuming the room had that blue and white wallpaper. why was the mantel that ugly greenish? im betting washington just called it the blue room . That just sounds better tan telling your guest that they will be staying in the, "ugley green room at the top of the stairs." Dont it?