Menokin, also known as Francis Lightfoot Lee House, was the plantation of Francis Lightfoot Lee near Warsaw, Virginia, built for him by his wife's father, John Tayloe II, of nearby Mount Airy. Lee, a Founding Father, was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. Menokin was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971.[3]
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) documentation, including photos from the 1940s, shows the house standing and reported that it was in poor condition, awaiting a restorer. The National Park Service webpage shows the house in ruins, but reports that woodwork had been removed and placed in storage in the 1960s. Although the house has partly collapsed, the Menokin Foundation has developed a plan to restore the house using glass segments to fill missing portions of the building instead of trying to restore the house to its original condition.[4]
^"Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ ab"Menokin". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved April 14, 2008.
^O'Connor, Meghan. "Eighteenth-Century House Ruin to Be Restored…With Glass". National Trust for Historic Preservation. pp. December 3, 2014. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
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