HISTORIC KENMORE
Historic House — Fredericksburg, Virginia
Status: Status unknown · Access: Access unknown
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/historic-kenmore-fredericksburg-virginia/

Historic house associated with published local folklore.

Historic Kenmore is a historic house in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Historic house associated with published local folklore. Its signature presence is Fielding Lewis — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 named or described presence — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.

Kenmore is the house George Washington's sister built — the Georgian brick mansion that Fielding and Betty Washington Lewis finished in 1775 on the plantation outside Fredericksburg, where the plasterer called the Stucco Man cut ceilings that are still the finest in America. Lewis was the merchant who outfitted Virginia's troops; the house stood between the armies at Fredericksburg and took seven cannonballs, then served as a hospital in the Wilderness campaign.
The Lewises' wealth was enslaved labor; the tour now carries the enslaved community alongside the family. The house got its name from a later owner in 1819; the plasterwork was saved by a nineteen-year-old in 1881; the Garden Club of Virginia restored the gardens as its first project. Kenmore is the sister's house — the Washington who stayed home and paid for the war.
The file keeps Kenmore: the Stucco Man's ceilings, the cannonballs, the hospital, and the house of the woman whose brother became the republic.
Kenmore is the archive's Fredericksburg file — the finest plasterwork in the country and the family that financed the Revolution.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Kenmore is the archive's Fredericksburg file — the Stucco Man ceilings, the Civil War damage, and the Lewis family's sacrifice.
A sister's mansion keeps its ceilings — the file's suggestion being that Kenmore's hold is the craftsmanship: the anonymous plasterer, the seven cannonballs, and the house that survived both armies.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] apparition: Virginia Tourism attributes an upstairs apparition to Fielding Lewis. A house with Fredericksburg's history behind it gives the reports a setting that needs no exaggeration. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. Sources including 'Eight of the Most Haunted American Revolution Sites in…' keep the claim in circulation. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.
  source: Eight of the Most Haunted American Revolution Sites in Virginia (https://www.virginia.org/blog/post/haunted-revolution-sites/)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Eight of the Most Haunted American Revolution Sites in Virginia — Virginia Tourism Corporation
  https://www.virginia.org/blog/post/haunted-revolution-sites/

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