Governor's Palace, Williamsburg, Virginia

Governor's Palace, Williamsburg, Virginia

Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)

Block 20. Building 03.

Gardens - Virginia - Williamsburg

Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940

Lincoln, F.S.

Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg

Museum docents - Virginia - Williamsburg

Exterior of the Governor's Palace, north facade, viewed from behind the Palace, 1935. In the foreground, standing along the central path of the Palace's formal gardens, are three female costumed interpreters (once called "hostesses"), dressed in gowns and holding flowers. The gardens, designed by Arthur Shurcliff, include boxwood parterres and one dozen large cylindrical shrubs known as the Twelve Apostles, a feature often appearing in eighteenth-century English gardens. The ballroom wing of the Palace, featured in the background, was built as an addition during the 1750s. Above its rear doors, a painted carving of the royal coat of arms is mounted within a pedimented gable

Lincoln, F.S.

Peter Hornbeck Lantern Slides Collection, AV-2000.9, Box 3

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Image

HLS-115

Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Lantern Slide

3.25 x 4 inches