Gracefully written, with more than 80 photographs, maps, and engravings, the book tells a fascinating story with memorable insight.

Conceived in 1850, Mount Vernon is a young city, founded as an alternative to overcrowded New York City living by a group of ambitious middle- and laboring-class citizens.

Published in 1969, the book was more recently discovered by a Washington family descendant and reissued as Mount Vernon Love Story.

In 1805, veterans of the American Revolution claimed a plot of land in Ohio as reward for their military service, settling the town of Mount Vernon.

In this highly original new book, Lydia Mattice Brandt chronicles America’s obsession with the first president’s iconic home through advertising, prints, paintings, popular literature, and the full-scale replication of its architecture.

Through images that illustrate the power of 20th-century transportation technologies, new energy sources, and dynamic demographic forces on this City of Happy Homes, Mount Vernon Revisited commemorates pivotal milestones of the past 150 ...