The Governor's Palace
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 20. Building 03A.
Gardens - Virginia - Williamsburg
Postcards - Virginia - Williamsburg
Albertype Co.
Recto and verso of postcard depicting the rear elevation and ballroom wing of the Governor's Palace as viewed through a pleached arbor in the formal garden. This card is part of a series featuring photos taken by the Albertype Co. of Brooklyn, New York, for production of 1930s Colonial Williamsburg postcards. John A. Luttrell of Williamsburg, Virginia, published the card.
The caption reads: "A view of the pleached arbors in the extensive gardens which have been designed in completing the reconstruction of the Governor's Palace as one of the most important places of historic interest in Williamsburg."
Albertype Co.
John A. Luttrell, publisher
Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
ca. late 1930s
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Williamsburg Inn, Williamsburg, Virginia
Williamsburg Inn (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 02. Building 65.
Historic hotels - Virginia - Williamsburg
Neoclassicism (Architecture) - Virginia - Williamsburg
Postcard featuring the front entrance of the Williamsburg Inn, Williamsburg, Virginia, published by Colonial Williamsburg, Inc. and printed by Atelier Graphique, 1955.
The caption reads: "Williamsburg Inn, Williamsburg, Virginia. This structure is in the architectural style which was popular at the Springs in Virginia during the early nineteenth century. Its decorations and furnishings are of the Regency period."
Colonial Williamsburg, Inc.
1955
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