St. George Tucker House, View Looking East

St. George Tucker House, View Looking East

St. George Tucker House (Williamsburg, Va.)

Block 29. Building 02.

Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg

Architecture, Colonial - Virginia - Williamsburg

Architecture, Domestic - Virginia - Williamsburg

Gardens - Virginia - Williamsburg

Exterior of the St. George Tucker House, view of the formal boxwood garden and the eastern facade of the Tucker House Kitchen, 1933. The St. George Tucker House is one of the Historic Area's original eighteenth-century structures, and this view depicts the home when it was still occupied by descendants of the original builder. St. George Tucker, a law professor at the College of William and Mary, purchased and moved the central portion of the house from Palace Green to Market Square in 1788. He added wings to enlarge the size, and a 1798 paint agreement specifies the color scheme used on the house. Later additions and outbuildings have since been removed, and new modifications have been made. At the time this sketch was made, Tucker family descendants still lived in the home, as they were granted life tenancy after its restoration. The building now serves as a donor hospitality center.

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 x 45.5 cm