Aerial View of Palace Green
Aerial photographs - Virginia - Williamsburg
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 20. Building 03.
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
George Wythe House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 21. Building 01.
Block 21. Building 04.
Aerial view of Palace Green area, including Blocks 21, 30-2, 20, 29, 34, and 35, Robert Lowell Warner Aerial Photographs of Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S. Naval Reserve Photographic Squadron, May 1945
Warner, Robert Lowell
1945
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Bell Tower, Bruton Parish Church
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 21. Building 01.
Church architecture - Virginia - Williamsburg
Architectural elements - Virginia - Williamsburg
View looking inside the bell chamber within the Bruton Parish Church tower, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Ferguson, Finlay Forbes Jr.
1930
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Block 21 ; Block 30-2 : Palace Green
Block 21
Block 30-2
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
Elkanah Deane House (Williamsburg, Va.)
George Wythe House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Robert Carter House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Historic buildings -- Virginia -- Williamsburg
Looking west on Palace Green, this streetscape shows Bruton Parish Church, the George Wythe House and outbuildings, the Elkanah Deane House and the Carter Saunders House (now known as the Robert Carter House).
Moorehead, Singleton P.
Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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Bowden-Armistead House
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Architecture, Domestic - Virginia - Williamsburg
Greek revival (Architecture) - Virginia - Williamsburg
Block 21, Building 2.
View of Bowden-Armistead House showing the west and south facades, Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1928. Bruton Parish Church is visible to the right.
Holmes, Clyde
Circa 1928
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Bray Monument, Bruton Parish Church
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 21. Building 01.
Cemeteries - Virginia - Williamsburg
Tombs & sepulchral monuments - Virginia - Williamsburg
Coat of arms on Bray monument in churchyard of Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia
Barrows, John A.
Circa 1930
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Bray Monument, Bruton Parish Church
Tombs & sepulchral monuments - Virginia - Williamsburg
Cemeteries - Virginia - Williamsburg
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 21. Building 01.
Bray family monument in churchyard of Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia
Barrows, John A.
Circa 1930
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Bar-137w (see also 1990-681CN)
Brick Wall and Gate, Bruton Parish Church
Lampposts - Virginia - Williamsburg
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 21. Building 01.
Architectural elements - Virginia - Williamsburg
Detail view of a portion of the brick wall surrounding Bruton Parish Church with the gate and lamppost at the south entrance.
Barrows, John A.
Circa 1930
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Bruton Parish Cemetery
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 21. Building 01.
Cemeteries - Virginia - Williamsburg
Tombs & sepulchral monuments - Virginia - Williamsburg
View of a table tomb in the Bruton Parish Church cemetery, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Ferguson, Finlay Forbes Jr.
1930
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Bruton Parish Cemetery
Tombs & sepulchral monuments - Virginia - Williamsburg
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 21. Building 01.
Cemeteries - Virginia - Williamsburg
Architects Singleton P. Moorehead and Washington Reed examining a tomb in the Bruton Parish Church cemetery, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Ferguson, Finlay Forbes Jr.
1930
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Bruton Parish Cemetery
Tombs & sepulchral monuments - Virginia - Williamsburg
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 21. Building 01.
Cemeteries - Virginia - Williamsburg
Detail view of a table tomb in the Bruton Parish Church cemetery, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Ferguson, Finlay Forbes Jr.
1930
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Bruton Parish Church
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
Albumen prints
Centennial Photographic Company
Block 21. Building 01.
Church architecture - Virginia - Williamsburg
Since 1715, Bruton Parish Church has served continuously as a house of worship for the Williamsburg community. Like many other public buildings in the town, the church became a makeshift hospital during the Civil War. The sanctuary housed injured soldiers after the Battle of Williamsburg in 1862. Many Confederate soldiers lie in unmarked graves in the surrounding cemetery.
Various 19th-century modifications are documented in this photograph. One of three chimneys along the roof ridge is visible on the right. Added in 1840, when the altar was moved to the west end and a new entrance cut into the east façade, the chimneys provided ventilation for three large stoves used to heat the interior. A clock face is mounted on the steeple and almost obscures the small window in the octagonal section of the tower. Shutters cover the round-headed windows. Ivy climbs the east wall and thickly curtains the brick.
Fortunately, the overall exterior appearance of the church remained intact into the twentieth-century. During his first period as rector of Bruton Parish Church from 1903-1907, Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin oversaw restoration of the interior to commemorate the Jamestown Tercentenary of 1907. Further restoration work, including removal of the unauthentic exterior window shutters, occurred in 1939.
Centennial Photographic Company
ca.1875
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Bruton Parish Church
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
Church architecture - Virginia - Williamsburg
Block 21. Building 01.
Lantern slide featuring a photo of the exterior of Bruton Parish Church as it appeared around 1935. It is the twenty-first slide in a set produced by the Pacific Stereopticon Co. of Los Angeles, California, now defunct, to illustrate the story of Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin's dream to restore a portion of Williamsburg, Virginia to its 18th-century appearance as a shrine to early American ideals.
A smaller seventeenth-century structure stood on the site from 1683 until 1715, when the larger and more elaborate cruciform-style church replaced it. Located at the edge of Palace Green on the corner of Duke of Gloucester Street and Palace Street, the church was originally designed by colonial Governor Alexander Spotswood.
A series of restoration efforts began under Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin's direction between 1903-1907 and continued periodically until completed in 1940. In this 1935 photo of the north facade of Bruton Parish Church, the building retains the Colonial Revival window shutters installed by architect J. Stewart Barney during his 1906 renovation of the exterior, according to how be believed the church appeared in the eighteenth century. The shutters were later removed during final restoration efforts in 1939, given the availability of further research information.
Bruton Parish continues to serve an active Episcopal congregation and has functioned as a site of worship for the community since the parish was first founded in 1674.
Pacific Stereopticon Co.
ca. 1935
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Bruton Parish Church
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 21. Building 01.
Church architecture - Virginia - Williamsburg
Postcards - Virginia - Williamsburg
Recto and verso of postcard illustrated with a view of the northeast exterior elevation of Bruton Parish Church. Part of a series produced by the Albertype Co. of Brooklyn, New York, for Colonial Williamsburg, the card is an example of early efforts to promote Williamsburg as tourist destination. This photo pre-dates the final 1939 restoration of the church, when such features as the exterior shutters, the stove chimney, and louvered window grills on the tower were removed to bring the exterior back to its 18th-century appearance.
Albertype Co.
ca. 1930s
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Bruton Parish Church
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 21. Building 01.
Church architecture - Virginia - Williamsburg
Postcards - Virginia - Williamsburg
Recto and verso of postcard official Colonial Williamsburg postcard featuring a photo of the northeast exterior elevation of Bruton Parish Church. The Albertype Co. of Brooklyn, NY produced some of the earliest official postcards for Colonial Williamsburg. This one promoted the church as one of the prominent 18th-century public buildings still standing along Duke of Gloucester Street.
The caption reads: "Burton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia. Court Church of Colonial Virginia. In this building worshipped seven Royal Governors, and the Revolutionary Fathers and early statesmen of Virginia, including Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Tyler, Henry, Marshall, and many others.
Church work was established here about 1632. The name, Bruton, dates from 1674, at which time the Rev. Rowland Jones, ancestor of Mrs. Washington, was minister. In 1683 the first brick church was built. Williamsburg became the capitol in 1699, and the old church was torn down and the present cruciform structure erected in 1710-15.
The Bell in the Steeple, made in England in 1761, was the first in America to proclaim Civil Independence. The lectern was presented by President Roosevelt, and the bibles by King Edward VII, and President Wilson."
Albertype Co.
ca. 1930s
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Bruton Parish Church
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 21. Building 01.
Church architecture - Virginia - Williamsburg
Pre-restoration view of Bruton Parish Church from across Duke of Gloucester Street, Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1928.
Davidson, D. N.
Circa 1928
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D-10D
see also 1978-1267
Bruton Parish Church
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 21. Building 01.
Church architecture - Virginia - Williamsburg
Pre-restoration view of Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1928,
Davidson, D. N.
Circa 1928
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D-30
see also 78-1268
Bruton Parish Church
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 21. Building 01.
Church architecture - Virginia - Williamsburg
Pre-restoration view of Bruton Parish Church and its cemetery, Williamsburg, Virginia circa 1928.
Davidson, D. N.
Circa 1928
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Bruton Parish Church
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Block 21. Building 01,
Church architecture - Virginia - Williamsburg
Pre-restoration view of Bruton Parish Church showing the south façade from Duke of Gloucester Street, Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1928.
Holmes, Clyde
Circa 1928
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Bruton Parish Church
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 21. Building 01.
Church architecture - Virginia - Williamsburg
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
View looking northwest towards Bruton Parish Church
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Bruton Parish Church
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 21. Building 01.
Church architecture - Virginia - Williamsburg
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
View looking West down Palace Green towards Bruton Parish Church
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Cole-060 (see also 75-NJI-408)