Governor's Palace and Gardens, View Looking Southeast

Governor's Palace and Gardens, View Looking Southeast

Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)

Block 20. Building 03.

Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg

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Architecture, Colonial - Virginia - Williamsburg

Exterior view of the north and west facades of the Governor's Palace and formal gardens, looking southeast from the pleached hornbeam arbor behind the Palace, 1933. In the background stands the ballroom wing, an addition constructed during the 1750s, and the royal arms are featured in its pedimented gable. The Palace's 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.

Shaw, Thomas Mott

1933

1933

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

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45 x 31 cm