Travis House From Street

Travis House From Street

Block 13. Building 23a.

Travis House (Williamsburg, Va.)

Historic buildings -- Virginia -- Williamsburg

Exterior view of Travis House, looking down Duke of Gloucester Street, 1935. A popular restaurant for tourists in the 1930s, the Travis House served food inspired by colonial recipes. It stood for a period of time along Duke of Gloucester Street on the site formerly occupied by the Palace Theatre (Block 13, Building 23A). The structure moved back to its original location at the northeast corner of Francis and Henry Streets in the early 1950s (Block 14, Building 4).

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.

Lincoln, F.S.

1935

1935

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

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