Abstract
For more than 150 years, Mount Vernon has preserved and promoted the legacy of George Washington. Recently, with the construction of a new presidential library, the special collections were moved from the old library to their permanent home. When the archival collection was separated from the special collections, it became evident that this collection, along with the department management records, needed to be organized into an administrative archives. Because the historical collection is only loosely archived, and the management records are scattered throughout the Estate, they are not readily accessible for reference or research. To solve this problem and to make the administrative archives a reality, the intern more fully inventoried the historic collection and surveyed the departments' management records. After completing this project and interviewing other historic houses, the intern suggested several best practices in her recommendations to create a functioning administrative archives at Mount Vernon.