Alexander Purdie House
Block 09. Building 28a.
Purdie House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Historic buildings -- Virginia -- Williamsburg
<p>View of Alexander Purdie House from Duke of Gloucester Street, 1935. "The reconstructed Alexander Purdie House serves as the east wing of the King's Arms Tavern. In 1774, the Scottish-born Purdie founded the third of three Williamsburg newspapers named the <em>Virginia Gazette</em>. All three papers competed for readers as the Revolution drew near."</p>
<p>(Source: Michael Olmert and Suzanne Coffman, <em>Official Guide to Colonial Williamsburg</em> [Williamsburg, VA: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2007], 60).</p>
Lincoln, F.S.
1935
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>
jpeg
Image
LC370P1
Block 9: Duke of Gloucester Street
Block 9
Charlton House (Williamsburg, Va.)
John Coke Office (Williamsburg, Va.)
Kings Arms Barber Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)
Kings Arms Tavern (Williamsburg, Va.)
Palmer House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Palmer Kitchen (Williamsburg, Va.)
Shields Tavern (Williamsburg, Va.)
Tarpley's Store (Williamsburg, Va.)
Walthoe House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Wetherburn's Tavern (Williamsburg, Va.)
Historic buildings -- Virginia -- Williamsburg
<p>This view, looking south along Duke of Gloucester Street at Block 9, bordered by Blair and Botetourt Streets, shows a number of businesses and residences. Depicted are the Kerr House and Kitchen (now the Palmer House and Kitchen), <a href="http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports%5CRR1135.xml">Walthoe House</a>, English Coffee House (now Shields Tavern), Tilledge House (now the <a href="http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports%5CRR1145.xml">John Coke Office</a>), Purdie's Dwelling (now part of the Kings Arms Tavern), the King's Arms Tavern and Barber Shop, Charlton's Inn (now the Charlton House), the Bland House (now Wetherburn's Tavern) and Tarpley's Store.</p>
Moorehead, Singleton P.
Singleton P. Moorehead Streetscapes
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>
jpeg
eng
Image
D2010-COPY-0106-1023.jpg
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.
jpeg
Image
AV-99-11-00-R1, AV-99-11-00-R2, AV-99-11-00-R3,
AV-99-11-00-R4, AV-99-11-00-R5
King's Arms Tavern
King's Arms Tavern (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 09. Building 29A.
Taverns - Virginia - Williamsburg
Restaurants - Virginia - Williamsburg
Postcard depicting the interior of King's Arms Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia, published by Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., ca. 1950s.
The caption reads: "King's Arms Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. Meals served in the seven dining rooms of the King's Arms, a reconstructed colonial tavern on Duke of Gloucester Street, are prepared from eighteenth-century recipes. Costumed hostesses and waiters enhance the charm of an authentic early American setting."
Colonial Williamsburg, Inc.
ca. 1950s
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>
jpeg
Image
AV-2000-02-24-R