Author: LYON GARDINER. TYLERPublisher:
ISBN: 9780428214210
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
WILLIAMSBURG, THE OLD COLONIAL CAPITAL (CLASSIC REPRINT).
Author: LYON GARDINER. TYLERPublisher:
ISBN: 9780428214210
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Williamsburg Before and After
Author: George Humphrey YetterPublisher: Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN: 9780879350772
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
George Yetter's informative text describes why Williamsburg was founded and flourished during the colonial period. He traces the deterioration that followed when the capital moved to Richmond in 1780, and concludes with the exciting story of how Williamsburg's past was saved. Old photographs, daguerreotypes, watercolors, sketches, and maps capture "pre-restoration" Williamsburg. Lovely color "after" photographs show that the vision and dream have been fulfilled.
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.
Creating Colonial Williamsburg
Author: Anders GreenspanPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469625679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
In Creating Colonial Williamsburg, Anders Greenspan examines the restoration and re-creation of the structures and gardens of Virginia's colonial capital beginning in 1926. The restoration was undertaken by the Rockefeller family, whose aim was to promote a twentieth-century appreciation for eighteenth-century ideals. Ironically, those ideals, including democracy, individualism, and representative government, were often promoted at the expense of a more complete understanding of the town's true history. The meaning and purpose of Colonial Williamsburg has changed over time, along with America's changing social and political landscapes, making the study of this historic site a unique and meaningful entry point to understanding the shifting modern American character. In recent years, financial struggles and declining attendance forced a new interpretation of the town, extending the presentation into the period of the American Revolution, while adding new interpretive approaches such as street theater and a greater emphasis on technology. Over its eighty-year history, says Greenspan, Colonial Williamsburg has grown and matured, while still retaining its emphasis on the importance of eighteenth-century values and their application in the modern world.
Christmas in Williamsburg
Author: Karen KostyalPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426308671
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Showcases traditions, crafts, recipes, and customs from throughout three hundred years of American Christmas celebrations, with photographs and descriptions of holiday festivities in Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.
Williamsburg
Author: Catherine CalvertPublisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Millions of visitors have appreciated Williamsburg not only for its authentic taste of life in colonial Virginia but also for the incredible design resource of its meticulously restored and appointed homes and gardens. Ever since the 1930s, Williamsburg fans have been able to decorate their homes with reproductions of furnishings, fabrics, and accessories, but until now there has never been a decorating book that shows how to put the look together. In chapters that highlight living rooms and gathering places; the bedchamber; dining rooms, kitchens, and pantries; and home and garden, Williamsburg demonstrates its ability to inspire contemporary lifestyles. Special sections on such topics as lighting, color, mantels, silver, and bed hangings focus on details; and photographs of rooms especially decorated for the book by decorating expert Tricia Foley, using Colonial Williamsburg reproductions, give practical ideas for mixing old, new, and reproductions in a harmonious scheme.Produced in conjunction with The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the book is rich with the latest discoveries about 18th-century taste -- bold new colors, rest
Entertaining Ideas from Williamsburg
Author: Susan Hight RountreePublisher: Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN: 9780879350956
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Drawing on the heritage of Virginia hospitality, this book contains a treasure trove of sugges- tions and ow-tos for commemorating special occassions throughout the year. From a winter dinner to a spring wedding, this beautiful book, provides a wealth of flower-arranging, decorating, handicraft, and cooking ideas.
Williamsburg in Vintage Postcards
Author: Kristopher J. PreacherPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439629226
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
"Williamsburg is a stronghold of the past, a sort of enchanted ground, lovely and quiet as a dream." Williamsburg may no longer be quiet as a dream, but it is certainly lovely and unquestionably a stronghold of the past, more so now than Miss Hildegarde Hawthorne could have dreamt when she penned these words in 1917. After Virginia's capital moved from Williamsburg to Richmond in 1780, the city sank into one and a half centuries of sleepy obscurity punctuated only by the Civil War. From 1928 to 1932, however, John D. Rockefeller Jr. restored the city to its colonial glory, and it leaped from impoverished backwater to tourist mecca within the space of a few years.
Williamsburg Christmas
Author: Libbey Hodges OliverPublisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810945517
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A celebration of the colonial Christmas shows the many faces of the season.
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