Home to George Washington's only sister, Betty, and her husband, Col. Fielding Lewis, a chief financial backer of the American Revolution, Kenmore is one of the oldest house museums in American.
Built in 1775, it was one of the first national preservation efforts, second only to the saving of Mount Vernon. In 1922 the ladies of Fredericksburg raised the money needed to save the historic building and grounds as "a sacred trust".
Betty Washington lived here with her husband and during the Civil War it served as a Union hospital.