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Re‐creating Mount Vernon

The Virginia Building at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, was understood as a complete replica of George Washington’s Mount Vernon. The replica’s elite, white creators simultaneously posited Mount Vernon as a paragon of the Southern plantation system defended by the Confederacy and as a symbol of a shared, national history that indicated the South’s willingness to reconcile with the Union. Through the similarly conservative and retrospective strategies of the Lost Cause and the colonial revival, the Virginia Building simulated an ideal world that reflected the attitudes of its proponents on race, gender, and the state’s national role.