The First Oval Office

The First Oval Office A collaboration between Colonial Williamsburg and the Museum of the American Revolution to reproduce George Washington's wartime headquarters tent.

In 2011, a team of researchers, historians, and tradesmen assembled to study one of the surviving marquees or tents used by George Washington that is in the collection of the Museum of the American Revolution. Realizing the importance of this impermanent structure to American history, the tent will become one of the cornerstone objects within the new museum for telling the story of the American Wa

r for Independence. Like the Oval Office in the White House today, decisions and ideas that shaped our nation history took place within the oval shaped marquee in the fields across the newly formed United States. Starting in the summer of 2013, located in the Secretary's Office at Colonial Williamsburg, a team of seven stitchers will publicly reconstruct an detailed reproduction of Washington's Marquee, allowing future generations to experience how and where Washington lived while on campaign during the American Revolution.

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