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Pre-restoration view of the front entrance to the Ludwell-Paradise House in Williamsburg, Virginia

Governor's Palace main interior stairway, ca. 1937

A costumed interpreter stands at the front entrance of Ludwell-Paradise House in 1935, soon after it opened as one of the early exhibition buildings at Colonial Williamsburg.

One of the eighty-eight original eighteenth-century buildings at…

Central stairway of the Governor's Palace, 1935, featuring richly carved wooden paneling and architectural elements exhibiting neoclassical ornamentation. Muskets are featured to the right of the stairway.

Interior furnishings and decor reflect…

View of the Governor's Palace garden terraces, also known as "falling gardens," 1935. In the foreground, a female costumed interpreter (originally referred to as a "hostess") sits on a bench. These falling gardens, in addition to the canal (at base…

View of the Governor's Palace garden terraces (originally known as "falling gardens"), 1935. A female costumed interpreter stands in a gown at the top of the garden stairway. The falling gardens are one of the Palace's original eighteenth-century…