{"id":648,"date":"2011-05-23T22:07:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T03:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2011-05-23T22:07:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T03:07:41","slug":"washington-hall-mansion-before-its-fiery-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/washington-hall-mansion-before-its-fiery-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Hall Mansion Before its Fiery End"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_647\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-647\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/washington-hall-mansion-before-its-fiery-end\/washington-hall\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-647\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-647\" title=\"Washington Hall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/washington-hall-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Washington Hall\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/washington-hall-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/washington-hall.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Washington Hall<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">On May 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, I had the honor of giving a presentation on <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation<\/em> to the Austin Peay Women\u2019s Book Club in Clarksville, Tennessee.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>To my surprise, one of the book club members presented me with a photo of Washington Hall taken in 1965 a few months before it burned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">George Augustine Washington Jr. and his wife Marina \u201cQueenie\u201d Woods, began construction on the magnificent home in 1896.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Washington Hall was a three-story white brick mansion with forty-four rooms.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>In its heyday Washington Hall was one of the showplaces in the South, where some of the crowned heads of Europe had been entertained. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">In 1965 the Washington Hall mansion burned to the ground.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The grand entrance gate is the only remnant of its former glory.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 3rd, I had the honor of giving a presentation on The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation to the Austin Peay Women\u2019s Book Club in Clarksville, Tennessee.\u00a0 To my surprise, one of the book club members presented me with a photo of Washington Hall taken in 1965 a few months before it burned. George Augustine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,15,19,13,21,18,20,22],"tags":[33,28,486,485,488,487,112,27,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}