Lego House

One of the strange things that I thought about Mount Vernon was that the house didn’t seem real. It looked like it had been built out of some shiny plastic wood bricks resembling Lego. It also seemed very flat as it had been built just for the purpose of a movie set and felt more of a reconstruction rather than a house of nostalgia. It seemed quite strange to enter not through the main door but underneath an arch on a raised platform to the side of the house. Inside every room was a guide to tell us the various activities that would take place in that particular room. The big draw was the rear porch that overlooked the river; partly for the view but mostly it was the only area that had a vast amount of seating in the shade on the property’s veranda. The house also has a special look-out tower but it seems to have to get special privileges to be able to be invited up there.