The Executive Mansion of Virginia

Three Presidents of the United States lived on this site: Monroe and Tyler while serving as Governors of Virginia, and William Henry Harrison while his father, Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was Governor. The first house here was also home to Governors Patrick Henry and Henry Lee, father of Robert E. Lee. The present house, first occupied by Governor James Barbour in 1813, was designed by Alexander Parris and built by Christopher Tomkins. As the home of Virginia’s chief executives since that date, it is the oldest continuously occupied official Governor’s residence in the nation. In 1989, the mansion’s exterior was restored to its circa 1830 appearance.

Richmond, Virginia · United States