Governor's Palace Gardens With Ballroom Entrance

Governor's Palace Gardens With Ballroom Entrance

Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)

Block 20. Building 03.

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Exterior view through a wrought-iron gate of the north facade of the Governor's Palace Ballroom Wing and formal gardens, 1933. In the background stands the Ballroom Wing, an addition constructed during the early 1750s by Governor Robert Dinwiddie, and the royal arms are visible in the pedimented gable above the wing's rear entrance. 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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29 x 43.5 cm