Harewood is one of several houses in the vicinity of Charles Town, West Virginia

Charles Town, West Virginia

Charles Town is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 2,907 at the 2000 census. Due to its similar name, travelers have sometimes confused this city with the state's capital, Charleston.-History:...

 built for members of the Washington

George Washington

George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...

 family. The house was designed by John Ariss

John Ariss

Architect John Ariss was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia to a family long settled in the Old Dominion. Two of his works have been classified as National Historic Landmarks...

 for Samuel Washington

Samuel Washington

Samuel Washington was a brother of United States President George Washington. He was born on November 16, 1734 at Pope's Creek, Wakefield, Westmoreland County, Virginia....

 in 1770. Washington moved from his farm on Chotank creek in Stafford County, Virginia

Stafford County, Virginia

Stafford County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a U.S. state, and just across the Rappahannock River from the City of Fredericksburg. As of the 2000 census, the population was 92,446, increasing to 128,961 in 2010.. Its county seat is Stafford. In 2006, and again in 2009,...

 to Harewood, accumulating 3800 acres (1,537.8 ha) by the time he died in 1781.

George Washington

George Washington

George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...

 visited the house several times. James Madison

James Madison

James Madison, Jr. was an American statesman and political theorist. He was the fourth President of the United States and is hailed as the “Father of the Constitution” for being the primary author of the United States Constitution and at first an opponent of, and then a key author of the United...

 and Dolley Payne Todd

Dolley Madison

Dolley Payne Todd Madison was the spouse of the fourth President of the United States, James Madison, and was First Lady of the United States from 1809 to 1817...

 were married at Harewood on September 15, 1794. Dolley's sister was Lucy Washington

Lucy Washington

Lucy Washington , one of eight children born to John Payne and Mary Coles, was the sister of Dolley Madison, the wife of American President James Madison. She first married Major George Steptoe Washington, a nephew of American President George Washington...

, wife of Samuel Washington's son, George Steptoe Washington

George Steptoe Washington

George Steptoe Washington was an American soldier and the husband of both Lucy Washington and Mary Coles Payne...

, who had inherited the estate.

The property remains in the Washington family.

External links

• Harewood, Charles Town vicinity, Jefferson County, WV: 20 drawings, 14 photos, 3 data pages, at Historic American Building Survey