Christopher Ayscough, the namesake of the shop, tried operating a tavern on the site between 1768-1770. Other shopkeepers, including Catherine Rathell, Matthew Holt, and Jacob Bruce, briefly occupied the store and sold various goods to townspeople.

The structure survived from the eighteenth century, although it was hardly recognizable due to the enlargements and modifications made in the nineteenth century. Once restored to its eighteenth-century appearance, the building exhibited such features typical of a commercial establishment as a gable end entrance and large shop window.

Today the structure is known as the Christopher Asycough House.]]>
Colonel Edward Champion Travis built the home in 1765 and it acquired several additions as successive owners occupied the site. Travis served in the House of Burgesses and was its most prominent colonial occupant. The house became a residence for superintendents of Eastern State Hospital in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Eastern State Hospital turned the building over to the Williamsburg Restoration in 1929 and this led to its temporary move to Duke of Gloucester Street to become a restaurant between 1930-1951.
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Christopher Ayscough, the namesake of the house, tried operating a tavern on the site between 1768-1770. Other shopkeepers, including Catherine Rathell, Matthew Holt, and Jacob Bruce, briefly occupied the store and sold various goods to townspeople.

The structure survived from the eighteenth century, although it was hardly recognizable due to the enlargements and modifications made in the nineteenth century. Once restored to its eighteenth-century appearance, the building exhibited such features typical of a commercial establishment as a gable end entrance and large shop window.]]> ]]>
The caption reads: "James Semple House, Williamsburg, Virginia. A restored house which though built about 1801 was of an earlier colonial type. Once owned by Judge James Semple."

This information is now outdated but reflects the research data available at the time the postcard was generated. The house is actually an example of one of the extant 18th-century domestic buildings still standing in Colonial Williamsburg. It served as the residence of the William Finnie family in the third quarter of the 18th-century. Finnie served in the American Revolution as quartermaster general of the Southern Department. James Semple became the owner of the property in 1800.]]> Rights and reproductions]]> AVPC-93-090-V]]>
Part of a series of cards produced by the Albertype Company to promote Williamsburg as a tourist destination in the 1930s, it shows the front façade prior to any major restoration efforts, such as the removal of the 19th-century central porch.]]> AV-2000-10-05-V]]>
The card's caption reads: "Throughout the eighteenth century this colonial house, which was built in 1745-1747, was the residence of the Blair family. It has been restored."

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One of the eighty-eight original buildings at Colonial Williamsburg, the Finnie House is named after William Finnie. He resided in the home in the 1770s and early 1780s and held the office of quartermaster general of the Southern Department during the American Revolution.

At the time of this postcard's publication, townspeople mistakenly associated this home with Peyton Randolph. Research undertaken during the initial restoration of Williamsburg revealed that Randolph resided in a different home and it was re-named for one of its prominent residents, William Finnie.

The caption reads: "Home of Honorable Peyton Randolph, First President of the Continental Congress which met in Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, September 5, 1774 and Providential Grand Master of Masons of Virginia, Williamsburg, Virginia."]]> see also N5158]]> see also 1979-35]]> see also N3600]]> see also N3603]]> see also N3607]]> see also 1979-02]]> see also 78-0481]]> see also N3612]]> see also 79-30]]>