Governor's Palace, Formal Garden

Governor's Palace, Formal Garden

Block 20. Building 03.

Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)

Historic buildings -- Virginia -- Williamsburg

Public buildings -- Virginia -- Williamsburg

Gardens -- Virginia -- Williamsburg

View of the formal gardens behind the Governor's Palace, flanking one side of the Ballroom Wing, 1935. These 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. Near the top of the photo, a pleached hornbeam arbor is visible to the left. Just beyond the arbor is a small structure built into the garden wall that served as a privy (necessary). An earthen mound is also visible (featuring a stair and viewing platform on top), and served as the site of the Palace's original eighteenth-century Ice House.

Lincoln, F.S.

1935

1935

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

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