George Mason's Gunston Hall
by seagoingJLW
George Mason was the father of the Bill Of Rights.
He also wrote the Virginia Constitution and the Virginia Declaration of Rights. The latter was the basis for the Bill of Rights. Gunston Hall was his home.
Gunston Hall was constructed from 1755 to 1760. The architecture is Georgian. Gunston Hall is located at 10709 Gunston Road, Mason Neck, VA.
Phone: 703-550-9220
Statue of George Mason
by b1bob
George Mason (for whom the university was named) was one of the lesser-known founding fathers of the United States of America. His "Fairfax Resolves" outlined the colonists' constitutional objections to the Boston Port Act. His Declarations of Rights were a prelude to the first part of the Declaration of Independence and was the basis of the federal Constitution's Bill of Rights. One reason why George Mason is lesser known is that while he attended and spoke frequently at the 1787 Constitutional convention, he never signed it because it did not contain the Bill of Rights straightaway and he feared the House of Representatives was not truly representative, the Senate and judiciary too powerful, and that the government would either become a monarchy or ruled by a corrupt aristocracy. In many ways, some would say Mason was spot on.
Fenwick Library
by b1bob
Some folks might say I didn't spend enough time here. I went in there, checked out what I needed, photocopied from the reference books, and went back to my dorm where I could have some kind of background noise. The quiet was deafening. On the left wing is the entrance hall and the newspaper and magazine section. The tower on the right is the reference section (1st floor), undergraduate stacks (2-4), and on the 5th floor is the history and religion department offices and the graduate stacks.
Aquatic Centre
by b1bob
Since I graduated, they added a state of the art fitness and aquatic centre. Before this, the swimming pool used to be in the Field House on the other side of the campus from either University Commons or President's Park.