Wilton House Museum
215 S. Wilton Rd.
Richmond, VA 23226
United States
Built c. 1753 for William Randolph III, Wilton was a manor house on a 2,000-acre tobacco plantation near Richmond, Virginia. In 1775, the home hosted George Washington, who was attending the Second Virginia Convention. During the American Revolution, the Marquis de Lafayette headquartered at Wilton and met with then-governor Thomas Jefferson at the manor while Continental troops camped nearby.
The home went through a succession of owners until the 1930s, when it was purchased by The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The structure was then dismantled, transported, and reassembled several miles west of its original location. Today, the Wilton House Museum overlooks the James River and exhibits collections of 18th and 19th-century furnishings, textiles, and other goods.
