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L^obert E. Lee Lives On
Stratford" , his home in Virginia, has become a tiational shrine.
by AAAUDE GARDNER
k £ ANY tributes have been paid -VX to the memory of General .obert E. Lee since his death eighty ne years ago, but none would the reat soldier and scholar more hearty approve than the restoration of le Lee family home, Stratford, on ' ie west bank of the Potomac estuary, Vestmoreland County, Virginia.
Stratford was built, with assistance rem the King and Queen of Eng' and, between 1725 and 1730 by Thomas Lee, Royal Governor of Vir;inia. It replaced an earlier Lee home lestroyed by fire. The deep red brick, ine grained and smooth, was sent rom England; the huge oak timbers vere cut from trees on the estate.
An old home that has been closely issociated with great men and events ;onveys a concrete lesson. Stratford is ;uch a place, for it shows the mode
in which the patrician families of early Virginia lived, and reflects the stature of the Lees by being itself an outstanding example of unaltered Co' lonial architecture.
The building was designed to stand in the center of a large square, with smaller brick domestic buildings at each of the four corners. A brick wall unites the domestic quarters to give the residence a fortress-like ap' pearance.
THE mansion itself was constructed in the form of an H, with a long flight of steps called "Welcome Stairs", leading to the entrance on the second floor level. Two great clusters of chimneys, four in each, rise to the right and left of center. From an observation post in the middle of one cluster. Governor Lee could look out across the Chesapeake Bay to sight the return of Stratford's own sailing ships which plied the trade between the Virginia estate, Boston and England. In the nineteen-room mansion were