Governor's Palace Gardens, Bird's-Eye View of Boxwood Parterre

Governor's Palace Gardens, Bird's-Eye View of Boxwood Parterre

Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)

Block 20. Building 03.

Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg

Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg

Gardens - Virginia - Williamsburg

Architecture, Colonial - Virginia - Williamsburg

View of the formal gardens behind the Governor's Palace, flanking one side of the Ballroom Wing, 1933. 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-center of the photo, a pleached hornbeam arbor is visible. In the top-left corner, beyond the arbor, is a small tent-roofed structure built into the garden wall. This building served as a privy (necessary).

Shaw, Thomas Mott

1933

1933

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

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31.5 x 45.5 cm