Author: Graham Hood
Publisher:
ISBN:
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.
The Governor's Palace in Williamsburg
Author: Graham Hood
Publisher:
ISBN:
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
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.
Our Governors' Mansions
Author: Cathy Keating
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Glossy color photographs lavishly depict the residences of the governors of 44 states (six states do not have governor's mansions). Each state's mansion receives its own section picturing public and private rooms, exterior and grounds, and artworks and furnishings within. Text combines architectural description and attention to interior decoration with historical anecdotes and occasional reference to the lives of the residents; Keating, First Lady of the State of Oklahoma, assures us in her introduction that "First Families are people, too."Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Glossy color photographs lavishly depict the residences of the governors of 44 states (six states do not have governor's mansions). Each state's mansion receives its own section picturing public and private rooms, exterior and grounds, and artworks and furnishings within. Text combines architectural description and attention to interior decoration with historical anecdotes and occasional reference to the lives of the residents; Keating, First Lady of the State of Oklahoma, assures us in her introduction that "First Families are people, too."Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Governor's Palace, Williamsburg, Virginia
Governor's Houses and State Houses of British Colonial America, 1607-1783
Author: Hoke P. Kimball
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786470518
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
This comprehensive survey of British colonial governors' houses and buildings used as state houses or capitols in the North American colonies begins with the founding of the Virginia Colony and ends with American independence. In addition to the 13 colonies that became the United States in 1783, the study includes three colonies in present-day Florida and Canada--East Florida, West Florida and the Province of Quebec--obtained by Great Britain after the French and Indian War.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786470518
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
This comprehensive survey of British colonial governors' houses and buildings used as state houses or capitols in the North American colonies begins with the founding of the Virginia Colony and ends with American independence. In addition to the 13 colonies that became the United States in 1783, the study includes three colonies in present-day Florida and Canada--East Florida, West Florida and the Province of Quebec--obtained by Great Britain after the French and Indian War.
Life in the English Country House
Author: Mark Girouard
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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 Palace of the Governors
Author: Ralph Emerson Twitchell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Santa Fe (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Santa Fe (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Master Printer
The Boot & shoemaker
Description of the Governor's Palaces in Malta ...
Author: Blanch Lintorn Simmons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Restoring Williamsburg
Author: George Humphrey Yetter
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.