Aerial View of Blocks 8, 17, and 27
Aerial photographs - Virginia - Williamsburg
African American neighborhoods - Virginia - Williamsburg
Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 08. Building 11.
Aerial view of Capitol site and Block 8 looking NW towards Blocks 17 and 27, Robert Lowell Warner Aerial Photographs of Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S. Naval Reserve Photographic Squadron, May 1945.
This view of the Capitol site looking towards Block 17, housing the Raleigh Tavern, and Blocks 27 and 28 along east Nicholson Street, is significant for its visual documentation of an entire neighborhood now disappeared that once served Williamsburg’s hospitality employees and African American community during the era of segregation. Today the area encompasses Colonial Williamsburg’s Franklin Street administrative buildings, bus operations, archaeological collections building, millwork shop, laundry, commissary, and warehouse. Two churches, Mount Ararat Baptist Church, on Franklin Street, and Union Baptist Church, on Botetourt Street, served the spiritual needs of residents. Along Raleigh Lane, extending off of Nicholson Street near the Public Gaol, stood the Odd Fellows Hall, also known as the Morninglight Lodge, the Hillside Café/Wallace and Cook’s Beer Garden restaurant, and the Thomas Confectionary, all of which provided venues for social and philanthropic activities during the era of segregation. The Toby Scott restaurant and store across Botetourt Street from Mount Ararat Baptist Church gave neighbors another place to shop and congregate.
As part of its effort to attract and retain well-trained hotel and restaurant workers from larger cities to work at hospitality properties, Colonial Williamsburg constructed a row of six white clapboard houses along East Scotland Street in the 1930s. They offered comfortable and up-to-date homes with a living room, full kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms, and screened porches. Known as “White City” due to the painted white clapboard siding used on all six dwellings, they became the residences of chefs, bellmen, dining room captains, chauffeurs, and housekeepers for the Williamsburg Inn and Lodge. A large white clapboard dormitory building visible on the site of today’s Franklin Street Office Building provided additional lodging for single employees during a period when wartime housing pressures pushed Williamsburg to convert all useable spaces into extra accommodations. Today’s only remainder of this once vibrant neighborhood is Mount Ararat Baptist Church which still stands on Franklin Street next to the Franklin Street Office Building.
Warner, Robert Lowell
1945
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Aerial View of Capitol
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Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Raleigh Tavern (Williamsburg, Va.)
Streets - Virginia - Williamsburg
Aerial view of East ends of Duke of Gloucester and Francis Streets with Capitol Landing Road visible in the upper left, Robert Lowell Warner Aerial Photographs of Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S. Naval Reserve Photographic Squadron, May 1945
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1945
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Aerial View of Duke of Gloucester Street
Aerial photographs - Virginia - Williamsburg
Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Streets - Virginia - Williamsburg
Block 08. Building 11.
Aerial view looking West down Duke of Gloucester Street from the Capitol, Robert Lowell Warner Aerial Photographs of Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S. Naval Reserve Photographic Squadron, May 1945
Warner, Robert Lowell
1945
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008
Visitors, Foreign - Russia
Celebrities - Russia
Authors, Russian
Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 08. Building 11.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (center), Russian author and (at the time of this photograph) Soviet exile, visited Colonial Williamsburg on Independence Day, 1975. Solzhenitsyn had been forced to leave the Soviet Union due to his writings, and had only recently arrived in the United States before visiting Colonial Williamsburg and Washington, D.C.
1975-07-04
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Architecctural Model of Capitol
Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 08. Building 11.
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
West elevation of architectural model of the Capitol, Williamsburg, Virginia
Barrows, John A.
1930-10-01
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Architectural Model of Capitol
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Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 08. Building 11.
Architectural models
Aerial view of architectural model of the Capitol, Williamsburg, Virginia
Barrows, John A.
1930-10-01
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Architectural Model of Capitol
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 08. Building 11.
Architectural models
View looking northeast at architectural model of Capitol in Williamsburg, Virginia
Barrows, John A.
Circa 1930
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Architectural Model of Capitol
Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 08. Building 11.
Architectural models
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
West elevation of architectural model of the Capitol
Barrows, John A.
1930-10-02
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Bar-181w (see also 1995-98CN)
Block 17; Block 8: Duke of Gloucester Street
Block 8
Block 17
Alexander Craig House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Edinburgh Castle (Williamsburg, Va.)
Golden Ball (Williamsburg, Va.)
John Carter's Store (Williamsburg, Va.)
John Crump House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Margaret Hunter Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)
Pasteur & Galt Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)
Prentis House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Raleigh Tavern (Williamsburg, Va.)
Russell House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Secretary's Office (Williamsburg, Va.)
Unicorn's Horn (Williamsburg, Va.)
Historic buildings -- Virginia -- Williamsburg
<p>This view looking north along Duke of Gloucester Street at Blocks 17 and 8, shows the Prentis and Russell houses, Craig's Shop (now the <a href="http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports%5CRR1362.xml">Margaret Hunter Shop</a>), the Golden Ball, Carter's Shop (now the Unicorn's Horn and <a href="http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports%5CRR1355.xml">John Carter's Store</a>), Raleigh Tavern, Allen's Inn and Ordinary (the Alexander Craig House), <a href="http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports%5CRR1375.xml">Pasteur & Galt Apothecary Shop</a> Red Lion Inn (the John Crump House), Burdette's Ordinary (now the Edinburgh Castle Tavern), Walthoe's Shop (likely the Armistead House), the Public Records Office (now the Secretary's Office), and the Capitol.</p>
Singleton P. Moorehead
Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
This material is protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code). For reproduction queries: <a href="http://research.history.org/JDRLibrary/Visual_Resources/VisualResourcePermission.cfm">Rights and reproductions</a>
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Burgesses Chamber, Capitol
Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 08. Building 11.
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Furnishings - Virginia - Williamsburg
View looking south in the House of Burgesses towards the Speaker's Chair and benches in one of the apsidal ends of the Capitol, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Tebbs, Robert W.
1933
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Capitol
Garrison, Richard
Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 08. Building 11.
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Northwest elevation of the reconstructed Capitol, 1932.
Garrison, Richard
1932
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Capitol
Garrison, Richard
Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 08. Building 11.
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Hand-colored photograph of the reconstructed colonial Capitol, Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1930's
Garrison, Richard
Circa 1930's
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Capitol
Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 08. Building 11.
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
View of the south and east elevations of the Capitol, Williamsburg, Virginia, soon after its reconstruction.
Beckwith, Edward A.
1933
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Capitol
Block 08. Building 11.
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Progress photo of the south elevation of the Capitol under reconstruction, Williamsburg, Virginia
Todd and Brown Inc.
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Block 08. Building 11.
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South elevation of the Capitol, Williamsburg, Virginia, under final stages of reconstruction
Ferguson, Finlay Forbes Jr.
1932
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Capitol
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Block 08. Building 11.
Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Progress photo of scaffolding on cupola of Capitol under reconstruction, Williamsburg, Virginia
Nash, Susan Higginson
Circa 1929-1934
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Capitol
Landscape drawings
Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Coke-Garrett House (Williamsburg, Va.)
William Finnie House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Palmer House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Architecture, Domestic - Virginia - Williamsburg
Bird's-eye view looking southeast towards the Capitol, Williamsburg, Virginia, with the Coke-Garrett House in the foreground and the William Finnie House in the distance. The Palmer House is visible to the right.
Shurcliff, Arthur
1931
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Block 08. Building 11.
Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
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Reconstruction progress photo of the south elevation of the Capitol with scaffolding around the cupola, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Forbes, Finlay Ferguson Jr.
1932
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Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 08. Building 11.
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
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View looking up a pathway towards the south elevation of the Capitol, soon after its reconstruction, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Tebbs, Robert W.
1933
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Capitol
Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 08. Building 11.
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
View of the southeast elevation of the Capitol soon after its reconstruction, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Tebbs, Robert W.
1933
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