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 Under Restoration
Nash, Susan Higginson
Margaret Hunter Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 17. Building 09.
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Margaret Hunter Shop under restoration, 405 E. Duke of Gloucester St., Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1930s.
Nash, Susan Higginson
Circa 1930's
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Pre-Restoration Street Scene
Margaret Hunter Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)
Stores, Retail - Virginia - Williamsburg
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lost architecture - Virginia - Williamsburg
Pre-restoration view looking west on Duke of Gloucester Street towards its north side at, left to right, the Kinnamon's Garage, today the Margaret Hunter Shop, and two stores formerly on the sites of the Golden Ball and the Unicorn's Horn and John Carter's Store, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Shurcliff, Arthur
1930
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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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The Margaret Hunter Shop
Margaret Hunter Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 17. Building 09.
Postcards - Virginia - Williamsburg
Millinery
Stores & shops - Virginia - Williamsburg
Clothing & dress - Virginia - Williamsburg
Postcard, “The Margaret Hunter Shop." Text on verso reads: 'Once the favorite shopping place for eighteenth-century plantation owners' wives, this fine millinery shop is one of the several operating craft shops in Williamsburg open without charge to visitors throughout the year.'
Colonial Williamsburg
H. S. Crocker Co., Inc.
Circa 1970s
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The Margaret Hunter Shop
Block 17. Building 09.
Margaret Hunter Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)
Millenary
Clothing & dress - Virginia - Williamsburg
Postcard, “The Margaret Hunter Shop." Text on verso reads: 'Once the favorite shopping place for eighteenth-century plantation owners' wives, this fine millinery shop is one of the several operating craft shops in Williamsburg open without charge to visitors throughout the year.'
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
H. S. Crocker Co., Inc.
Circa 1970s
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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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