The house, which is architecturally unique as the only stone 18th-century Palladian Revival-style residence in Alexandria, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 and was restored in 1976.

The kitchen, the servant stairs, and the cellars are located on the right side[ambiguous] of the ground floor or basement.

The visitors that came through the front door were received by a servant (Moses)[citation needed] at the main hall.

It has a portrait of his mother, Rachel Murray Carlyle (painted when she was in her twenties), which was[ambiguous] located in front of their bed and above the fireplace.

A replica of Sarah Carlyle's wedding dress is exhibited in the room, a close-bodied gown with a petticoat (it used a mechanism to fold it when passing through narrow doors).

The wooden floor in front of the fireplace of the bedroom has visible burn marks resulting from the explosions of the air trapped in the charcoal and wood resins: at the time the fire screen had not yet been invented.

In front of the main chamber are John Carlyle's studio and the servant stairs that communicate with the ground and second floors.

In the hall many books are displayed, among them an 8th edition of The Gardeners Dictionary by Philip Miller (1768), the 16th edition of The Gardeners Kalendar, also by Philip Miller, aRivernd Volumes II and III of The Poets of Great Britain by John Bell that collect the works of Alexander Pope.

George Washington, a native Virginian who studied mathematics, trigonometry, and land surveying in Lower Church, prepared two maps of what later became the city of Alexandria.

King George II sent Edward Braddock with two regiments of British regulars (2500 troops) to America to fight in the French and Indian War that started in 1754, they arrived on 20 February 1755 in Hampton, in the colony of Virginia.

[5] In April 1755 they came to Carlyle house, and it became the initial headquarters for Major-General Edward Braddock in the Colony of Virginia.

Carlyle was a slaveholder for much of his life, and derived much of his personal fortune from both slavery and the Atlantic slave trade.

In the colonial era, as many as twenty-five slaves might have lived and worked within its walls and in the various outbuildings, and the jobs they could have done included being a blacksmith, chef, nanny or domestic worker.

This led to the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War that started on April 19, 1775, and ended on September 3, 1783.

His son, George William Carlyle, inherited the house in 1780, but died in combat at the Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina one year later.

John Carlyle Herbert sold it to pay off an uncle's gambling debt, while he had moved to Maryland in the first decade of the 19th century.

A wealthy Alexandria merchant, John Lloyd, owned extensive tracts of real estate both in and outside of town, nd ended up acquiring possession of the Carlyle House.

Not successful in selling the property, Lloyd offered the structure as a possible site for the new city and county courthouse to be constructed in Alexandria in 1838.

By the mid-twentieth century the building was in a state of great disrepair due to a lack of proper er maintenance.

[citation needed] In 1749 half-acre (lots 41 and 42) were auctioned in Alexandria, Virginia, John Carlyle bought them and completed the house in 1753, he was the owner until 1780, when he was killed during American Revolution.

It was not until 1906, when the buildings were bought by Earnest Wagar, that a major restoration of the house as a historic site was commenced.

In 1969, the decision was made by the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority to acquire and restore the property as a public national historic site.

The house was planned to be turn down and reconstruct, but a technique to support the building was chosen instead to preserve all the details.

The project involved tearing down the apartments (also known as the Braddock Hotel), once again exposing Carlyle House to North Fairfax Street, and then turning the mansion itself into an 18th-century museum.

The park, which opened in January 1976,[9] includes the 18th-century Carlyle House mansion and its gardens, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The first part of the book talks about the lives of the people that worked in the Mansion House Hospital in Alexandria during the Civil War.

Mercy Street (TV series) was a fictional medical drama based in the book Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two Wars and produced by PBS in 2016 and 2017, it had 2 seasons with 6 episodes in each one.

The DVD has also a 10 minutes video called "Don't get weary" that talks and is about the life of the slaves that worked in the house and in the area.