Kinnamon Store
Margaret Hunter Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 17. Building 09.
Kinnamon Store (Williamsburg, Va.)
Service stations - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lantern Slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
Pre-restoration view of the Margaret Hunter Shop when operated as a service station known as Kinnamon's Store. During the nineteenth-century, the colonial gable end store transformed into a two story structure when a second floor enlargement was built. Additional renovations converted it into a automotive service station in the 1920s. Careful archaeological and architectural investigations led to the shop's restoration in 1930 and further modifications brought it back to its full eighteenth-century appearance in 1951.
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Queen Mother Visiting Colonial Williamsburg's Millinery Shop
African American Photographers
Documentary Photography - Virginia - Williamsburg
Elizabeth, Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain, 1900-2002
Kings, Queens, Rulers, etc.
Visitors, Foreign - United Kingdom
Margaret Hunter Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)
Rockefeller, Winthrop, 1912-1973
Block 17. Building 09.
Her Majesty Elizabeth, Queen Mother of Great Britain, in the doorway of the Margaret Hunter Millinery Shop in Colonial Williamsburg. Winthrop Rockefeller is turned towards her as she exits the building.
Durant, Albert W.
1954-11
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Kylene Barker and Perry Como
Como, Perry, 1912-2001
Celebrities - American
Actors - American
Entertainers - American
Block 17. Building 8D.
The Golden Ball (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 17. Building 09.
Margaret Hunter Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)
Television specials
Kylene Barker (Miss America 1979) with Perry Como at the Millinery shop as crew members look on during filming for Como's 1978 Christmas special, "Early American Christmas."
1978
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The Sign of the Golden Ball
Golden Ball (Firm)
Block 17. Building 09.
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Margaret Hunter Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)
Stores, Retail - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lantern slide featuring a photo of the Golden Ball Shop in the early 1930s when it was located in what is today the Margaret Hunter Shop. It is the eleventh 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.
When Colonial Williamsburg first opened as a museum in the 1930s, Duke of Gloucester Street consisted of a combination of exhibition buildings and commercial establishments, and several retail establishments rented space in restored or reconstructed structures. The Golden Ball offered a selection of silver and pewter objects for sale. A neighboring structure, the James Craig House, houses today's Golden Ball, where visitors can watch silversmiths at work.
This building, "...an original structure, occupies a favorable spot on the busy 'downtown' end of the main street. Typical of commercial buildings, it has a gable-end facade, and its interior is divided between a large unheated storefront and a smaller counting office with a fireplace in the rear. Like many buildings, this one served as both workplace and home for its occupants." The first occupant (and later owner) of the building was Margaret Hunter, a milliner, who both "...imported and...made diverse and stylish accessories for men, women and children."
(Source: Michael Olmert and Suzanne Coffman, Official Guide to Colonial Williamsburg [Williamsburg, VA: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2007], 57).
Pacific Stereopticon Co.
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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
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Margaret Hunter Shop (Pender's Grocery)
Block 17. Building 09.
Margaret Hunter Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)
Historic buildings -- Virginia -- Williamsburg
<p>Exterior of the Margaret Hunter Shop, once known as Pender's Grocery, as viewed from Duke of Gloucester Street, 1935. When Colonial Williamsburg first opened as a museum in the 1930s, Duke of Gloucester Street consisted of a combination of exhibition buildings and commercial establishments, and several grocers operated small food markets in restored or reconstructed structures. Pender's Grocery offered a place for town residents and tourists to pick up refreshments.</p>
<p>This building, "...an original structure, occupies a favorable spot on the busy 'downtown' end of the main street. Typical of commercial buildings, it has a gable-end facade, and its interior is divided between a large unheated storefront and a smaller counting office with a fireplace in the rear. Like many buildings, this one served as both workplace and home for its occupants." The first occupant (and later owner) of the building was Margaret Hunter, a milliner, who both "...imported and...made diverse and stylish accessories for men, women and children."</p>
<p>(Source: Michael Olmert and Suzanne Coffman, <em>Official Guide to Colonial Williamsburg</em> [Williamsburg, VA: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2007], 57).</p>
Lincoln, F.S.
1935
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Margaret Hunter Shop (Pender's Grocery)
Block 17. Building 09.
Margaret Hunter Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)
Merchants Square (Williamsburg, Va.)
Historic buildings -- Virginia -- Williamsburg
<p>Exterior of the Margaret Hunter Shop, once known as Pender's Grocery, looking east down Duke of Gloucester Street, 1935. When Colonial Williamsburg first opened as a museum in the 1930s, Duke of Gloucester Street consisted of a combination of exhibition buildings and commercial establishments, and several grocers operated small food markets in restored or reconstructed structures. Pender's Grocery offered a place for town residents and tourists to pick up refreshments.</p>
<p>This building, "...an original structure, occupies a favorable spot on the busy 'downtown' end of the main street. Typical of commercial buildings, it has a gable-end facade, and its interior is divided between a large unheated storefront and a smaller counting office with a fireplace in the rear. Like many buildings, this one served as both workplace and home for its occupants." The first occupant (and later owner) of the building was Margaret Hunter, a milliner, who both "...imported and...made diverse and stylish accessories for men, women and children."</p>
<p>(Source: Michael Olmert and Suzanne Coffman, <em>Official Guide to Colonial Williamsburg</em> [Williamsburg, VA: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2007], 57).</p>
Lincoln, F.S.
1935
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