File:Arlington House - painted plaster front porch earthquake damage 2 - 2011.jpg

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English: Looking up at the capitals of several pillars on the front facade of the Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, at Arlington National Cemetery.

This shot shows where some of the plaster has flaked off -- cracked and shaken loose by the August 23, 2011, earthquake.

There are eight Doric pillars each in the front, each pillar five feet in diameter. Each pillar and much of the facade is covered in plaster. The plaster was painted to look like marble.

Arlington House was built by George Washington Parke Custis, adopted son of George Washington, in 1803. George Hadfield, also partially designed the United States Capitol, designed the mansion. The north and south wings were completed between 1802 and 1804. but the large center section and portico were not finished until 1817.

George Washington Parke Custis died in 1857, leaving the Arlington estate and house to his eldest daughter, Mary Custis Lee -- wife of General Robert E. Lee.
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Author Tim Evanson


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This image was originally posted to Flickr by dctim1 at https://www.flickr.com/photos/23165290@N00/6495636213. It was reviewed on 28 December 2011 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0.

28 December 2011

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