of sand that he described as being very white and then he also you sand that he got from pounded freestone what i mean by that is he took that same acquired stone that we saw the cellar took blocks of that and had the enslaved workers pound it back into sand and then sieve it out. so it was nice and fine and then he tested that against that white sand from the beach and he liked the free stone better because of course, it made the house look like it's made out of the local building. stone, which is a quiet sandstone, which is the same sandstone that they're using to build the us capitol and the white house at about the same time in the 1790s, washington loved this stone as president, he the us government purchased the quarry for this stone because it was our local dmv, the building stone. and so he wanted his houses to look the same and he was quite proud of that fact. so let's take a tour of the mansion, as you probably never seen it if you visited here. and what i mean by as you have never seen it, is that it's a construction zone. and ironically, that is the way that poor martha washing