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Hospitality | Tourism 2025: DOUG BRADBURN
PRESIDENT AND CEO, GEORGE WASHINGTON’S MOUNT VERNON, MOUNT VERNON
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Hospitality | Tourism 2025: DOUG BRADBURN
PRESIDENT AND CEO, GEORGE WASHINGTON’S MOUNT VERNON, MOUNT VERNON
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
One of the most visited historic estates in the nation, Mount Vernon receives about 1 million visitors annually.
Bradburn is overseeing a privately funded preservation project to ensure the structural integrity of George Washington’s mansion for decades to come. The $40 million project, which started in 2023 and will stretch to 2026, includes designing and installing a new HVAC system and improving drainage in and around the mansion’s cellar.
In June, Mount Vernon unveiled a new permanent exhibit focused on the lives of the 317 enslaved people who lived on the estate.
Bradburn has been with Mount Vernon since 2013, when he joined as the founding director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. He became president and CEO of the estate owned and maintained by The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association in 2018.
Bradburn, who has a doctorate in history from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, is an author and a scholar of early American history. He chaired the history department at the State University of New York at Binghamton before joining Mount Vernon.
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