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Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 6
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The Governor's Palace, Williamsburg, Virginia
Author: The Governor's Palace in Williamsburg
Author: Graham HoodPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The sixty-one living and working spaces in the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg contained more than sixteen thousand objects just before the American Revolution. Each supplied a key to deciphering daily life in the Virginia colony.
Governor's Palace, Williamsburg, Virginia
Author: Colonial Williamsburg FoundationPublisher:
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Boot & shoemaker
Author: The Public Buildings of Williamsburg, Colonial Capital of Virginia
Author: Marcus WhiffenA Summary View of the Rights of British America
Author: Thomas JeffersonPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Restoring Williamsburg
Author: George Humphrey YetterPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300248350
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This up-to-date and comprehensive look at the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg illuminates the important role it has played in our understanding of 18th-century America.
Life in the English Country House
Author: Mark GirouardPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300058703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Based on the author's Slade lectures given at Oxford University in 1975-76.
The Governor's Palace
Author: Barbara CarsonPublisher: Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN: 9780879351205
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The elegant and imposing Governor's Palace, official residence of seven royal governors and the first two governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, is the subject of this lavishly illustrated book. Barbara Carson explains how Virginia's eighteenth-century chief executives lived in the palace and used its public spaces to reinforce the image and authority of the British crown. She also discusses the inventory of Lord Botetourt, penultimate royal governor, an invaluable resource document that has answered many questions about the building and its contents.
Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way
Author: Wesley GreenePublisher: Rodale
ISBN: 1609611624
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A Colonial Williamsburg garden historian outlines traditional methods for planting and tending 50 different kinds of vegetables, profiling such 18th-century utilities as shelter paper and fermented manure while sharing complementary weather-watching guidelines, organic techniques and seed-saving advice.