When you enter the Ford mansion, George Washington’s winter headquarters during the 1779-1780 winter encampment, you tend to be focused, perhaps over-awed, by the residual presence of George Washington, Martha Washington, or Alexander Hamilton.

Yet just below the surface of the Revolutionary War story is the century-long story of a family home. Built by the wealthy and influential Ford family of Morris County in the early 1770s, the house sheltered the Fords through 100 years of personal, social, political, and economical upheaval.

The photographs in this booklet challenge us to move beyond our perceived expectations of the house and let it speak to us without a dialog provided. The Ford mansion is as much our home as it was the Fords because it invites us to remember our shared life experiences with people of the past and the world they inhabited. And it is at that intersection we connect with the past, seamlessly.

The images uniquely convey the duality of the home. “The domestic aspects are easily lost in the presence of Washington, but Xio has managed to capture the mansion’s essence as a home,” explains Jude M. Pfister, author of the text.

This is a physical book that gets mailed to you and not a downloadable electronic book.