Visitors' Center
Visitors' centers - Virginia - Williamsburg
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Streets - Virginia - Williamsburg
Hotels - Virginia - Williamsburg
View looking southeast at proposed Visitors' Center on Nicholson Street between Botetourt and Colonial Streets, Williamsburg, Virginia. The Visitors' Center is shown at the south end of the Williamsburg Railroad Station parking lot and faces Nicholson Street. Horse-drawn carriages are picking up and dropping off guests. The rough outlines of the Raleigh Tavern are depicted to the upper left while the Williamsburg Inn is shown at the end of Colonial Street at the top of the composition.
Shurcliff, Arthur
1935
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Williamsburg Railroad Station
Railroad stations - Virginia - Williamsburg
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Parking lots - Virginia - Williamsburg
Bird's-eye view looking northeast at proposed Railroad Station, Williamsburg, Virginia. A large parking lot is shown in front of the station with another building at its opposite end that appears to be a visitor's center for Colonial Williamsburg from which carriages are departing to transport guests to the Historic Area. An underpass for automobiles is shown running parallel to the station with pedestrian bridges stretching over it to allow travelers to walk from their automobiles into the station.
Shurcliff, Arthur
1932
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The Colonial Capitol of Virginia, Williamsburg, Virginia
Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 08. Building 11.
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Postcards - Virginia - Williamsburg
Postcard depicting a horse-drawn carriage passing by the reconstructed Capitol at Colonial Williamsburg, produced by The Albertype Company, Brooklyn, NY, and published by John A. Luttrell, Williamsburg, VA, ca. 1930s.
The caption reads: "The Colonial Capitol of Virginia, Williamsburg, Virginia. This is an authentic reconstruction of the Capitol of the Virginia Colony which was erected in 1705. Here many of the acts and resolutions were adopted which brough about the American Revolution. Here Patrick Henry made his Caesar-Brutus speech. The building has been rebuilt upon its original foundations and is open to the public."
Albertype Co.
John A. Luttrell
ca. 1930s
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Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Coach at the Gates of the Governor's Palace
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 20. Building 03.
Albertype Co.
Carriages & coaches - Virginia - Williamsburg
Recto and verso of Colonial Williamsburg postcard published by The Albertype Co. in the 1930s. It features a horse-drawn carriage positioned in front of the entrance gate of the Governor's Palace. The east Advance Building is visible in the background.
The Albertype Co. of Brooklyn, NY produced some of the earliest official postcards for Colonial Williamsburg. This one promoted the newly reconstructed Governor's Palace after it opened as an exhibition building on April 22, 1934.
Albertype Co.
ca. 1930s
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Model of Capitol
Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 08. Building 11.
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Architectural models
Detail of horse-drawn carriage on the grounds of an architectural model of Capitol, Williamsburg, Virginia
Barrows, John
1930
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Bar-663. See also 1995-57 CN.
Street Scene, Bowden-Armistead House
Streets - Virginia - Williamsburg
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Bowden-Armistead House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 21. Building 02.
Greek revival (Architecture) - Virginia - Williamsburg
Couple standing by ox drawn carriage on the west side of Duke of Gloucester Street with the Bowden-Armistead House in the background.
Barrows, John A.
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Oxen Passing Bruton Parish Church
Oxen - Virginia - Williamsburg
Carriages & coaches - American - Virginia - Williamsburg
Oxen pulling a carriage pass a truck parked along the brick wall surrounding Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia
Barrows, John A.
Circa 1930
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Peyton Randolph Stable
Peyton Randolph House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Stables - Virginia - Williamsburg
Carriages & coaches - Virginia - Williamsburg
Bird's-eye view looking northeast at the proposed Peyton Randolph Stable at head of North England Street, Williamsburg, Virginia, with the Palace parking lot beyond the trees at the rear of the property and the Grissell-Hay House garden (formerly known as the Van Garrett House) in the foreground.
Campbell, W.M.
1935-06
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Peyton Randolph House
Postcards - Virginia - Williamsburg
Peyton Randolph House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 28. Building 06.
Architecture, Domestic - Virginia - Williamsburg
Museum docents - Virginia - Williamsburg
Recto and verso of postcard illustrated with a view of a carriage passing the front of the Peyton Randolph House, Williamsburg, Virginia. Back of card reads: "Home to one of colonial America's leading statesmen."
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
H. S. Crocker Co. Inc.
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Greetings from Historic Williamsburg
Postcards - Virginia - Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.)
Souvenirs (Keepsakes) - Virginia - Williamsburg - Pictorial works
A postcard set titled "Greetings from Historic Williamsburg. A Collection of images from Colonial Williamsburg." The cover page includes the Governor's Palace, a view of the Palace gardens, and the interior of Bruton Parish Church. Page two has the images of the Wren Building at the College of William and Mary, the Courthouse of 1770, and the Powder Magazine. Page three is a view of guests enjoying a meal at King's Arms Tavern. Page four are the images of the Colonial Capitol, Raleigh Tavern, and Bruton Parish Church. Page five has the rear view of Wythe House & Gardens and the interior of the Governor's Palace Kitchen.
Description reads: "A Visit in Pictures to Virginia's Colonial Capital. This is Williamsburg, the restored capital of the eighteenth century colony of Virginia. Here is the little city as it was for nearly a century when Williamsburg was the home of the Royal Governor and the center of a proud society.
Today the twentieth-century visitor walks the same shaded streets where men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and George Mason began their march into history. And here once more is the Capitol, where Patrick Henry roared his defiance of the Stamp Tax, and where Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights become law. Here are the stately town houses, the modest dwellings of the townspeople, the taverns, shops, and public buildings.
Here craftsmen help to re-create the everyday life of the past. You can see the smiths, wigmaker, weaver, printer, bookbinder, baker, cabinetmaker, cobbler, apotheary, and silversmith making articles which for beauty and utility can take their place with the finest of the present day.
Here carriages drawn by spirited steeds still draw up before the gate of the Palace of the Royal Governors of Virginia, once the social center and symbol of royal authority in the colony. Formal gardens reflecting the influence of English taste upon the colonists still surround the Palace - gardens of boxwood, clipped hedges, pleached arbors, tulips, marigolds, hollyhocks, daylilies, crape myrtle, and magnolias.
Here in the evening by flickering candlelight one may tour the Capitol - visit the General Courtroom, the Governor's Council Chamber, and the Hall of the House of Burgesses - or sit in graceful surroundings at the Governor's Palace to enjoy a concert of eighteenth-century music played on instruments of the period.
Here is the College of William and Mary, founded in 1693, and Bruton Parish Church, where Washington and other patriots worshipped. Here is Williamsburg - seat of culture, center of learning, birthplace of freedom."
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
H. S. Crocker Co. Inc.
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Paul-Henri Spaak, Secretary General of NATO
Spaak, Paul-Henri, 1899-1972
Statesmen - Belgium
Williamsburg Inn (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 02. Building 65.
Paul-Henri Spaak, Secretary General of NATO and Belgian statesman, is seated in a carriage in front of the Williamsburg Inn, preparing for a ride around the Historic Area.
Crane, John
1957-10
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Rockefeller's Physician Touring Colonial Williamsburg
African American Photographers
Documentary Photography - Virginia - Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.)
Carriages & coaches - Virginia - Williamsburg
John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s personal physician riding in a carriage at Colonial Williamsburg with Mrs. Esther Ruffin and her daughters.
Durant, Albert W.
Circa 1950's
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John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Physician with Coach Driver
African American Photographers
Coaches & carriages - Virginia - Williamsburg
Coach drivers - Virginia - Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.)
Documentary photography - Virginia - Williamsburg
John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s personal physician posing with a Colonial Williamsburg coachman in front of his carriage near Market Square.
Durant, Albert W.
Circa 1950's
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Carriage at Raleigh Tavern
Garrison, Richard
Raleigh Tavern (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 17. Building 06A.
Taverns - Virginia - Williamsburg
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Hand-colored photograph of horse-drawn carriage stopped in front of Raleigh Tavern on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1930's.
Garrison, Richard
1930's
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Raleigh Tavern
Garrison, Richard
Raleigh Tavern (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 17. Building 06A.
Taverns - Virginia - Williamsburg
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
A horse-drawn carriage in front of the Raleigh Tavern on Duke of Gloucester Street, Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1930's
Garrison, Richard
Circa 1930's
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The Distinguished Colonists of the Early Days Attending Old Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Va.
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 21. Building 01.
Church architecture - Virginia - Williamsburg
Postcards - Virginia - Williamsburg
Thompson, A. Wordsworth (Alfred Wordsworth), 1840-1896
Recto and verso of postcard illustrated with a hand-colored image of a painting titled "Bruton Parish Church in Early Colonial Days" by A. Wordsworth Thompson. The original painting is now owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Thompson was active as an artist in the late 19th-century. This composition depicts the church as it appeared before 1895.
The caption reads: "Bruton Parish Church. Oldest Episcopal Church in America in continuous use, Court church of Colonial Virginia. Worship began 1632. First brick church completed 1683. Present building 1710-15. Transepts built by and for House of Burgesses. Colonial Governor's Canopied Pew. Three sets communion silver, viz.: Jamestown, 1661; William and Mary, 1686; King George III, 1766. Jamestown Font, "Liberty Bell of Virginia," first in America to proclaim civil Independence, May 15th, 1776. George Washington's name on parish register eleven times. Lectern presented by President Theodore Roosevelt. Holy Bible by King Edward VII. Pews Memorial to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, John Tyler, John Marshall, Patrick Henry and many other distinguished worshippers."
H.D. Cole for The Albertype Co.
ca. 1930s
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Palace Green
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Historic buildings-Virginia-Williamsburg
Public buildings-Virginia-Williamsburg
Block 20. Building 03A.
The vista south along Palace Green is a feature mentioned by Thomas Jefferson who noted that native American catalpa trees were planted along the sides. The open space continues south of Duke of Gloucester Street on what Benjamin Bucktrout's map of 1800 labels as King Street.
Lincoln, F.S.
1935
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Capitol building, exterior, western view from Duke of Gloucester Street
Block 08. Building 11.
Capitol Building (Williamsburg, Va.)
Historic buildings -- Virginia -- Williamsburg
Public buildings -- Virginia -- Williamsburg
Exterior of the Capitol building, western facade, viewed from Duke of Gloucester Street, 1935. The Capitol building stands in the background, behind a brick wall and western entry gate. The western facade highlights a second-floor balcony with wrought-iron railing, as well as the clock tower and cupola. Duke of Gloucester Street is featured in the foreground, where a carriage awaits with coachmen and horses.
Lincoln, F.S.
1935
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Governor's Palace, Front Gate
Block 20. Building 03.
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Historic buildings -- Virginia -- Williamsburg
Public buildings -- Virginia -- Williamsburg
Exterior of Governor's Palace, view of front gate, 1935. A female costumed interpreter (once called a "hostess") stands in a gown at the front gate, while a carriage drawn by two horses stands in the front drive. Two male costumed interpreters, representing an enslaved coachman and footman, wait with the carriage.
Lincoln, F.S.
1935
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Governor's Palace, Entrance and Green
Block 20. Building 03.
Governor’s Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Historic buildings -- Virginia -- Williamsburg
Public buildings -- Virginia -- Williamsburg
Gardens -- Virginia -- Williamsburg
<p>Overhead view of the Palace Green, looking south from the Governor's Palace, 1935. Palace Street rings the Green. Formal gardens are visible in the forecourt of the Palace, while a carriage drawn by two horses stands outside the front gate. Two male costumed interpreters, representing enslaved coachmen, wait with the carriage.</p>
<p>The long, broad expanse of the Green, lined on either side by catalpa trees (also known as catawba trees), creates an impressive vista and impression of grandeur upon approach to the Palace. "Palace Green was intended to focus the eye as well as the mind on the source of executive authority in Virginia and to provide the stately official residence at its head with an unimpeded vista to the heart of the community and beyond."</p>
<p>(Source: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation website, "See the Places: Historic Sites and buildings: Palace Green," http://www.history.org/almanack/places/hb/hbpalgr.cfm)</p>
Lincoln, F.S.
1935
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