Wren Building : College of William & Mary

Wren Building : College of William & Mary

Wren Building (Williamsburg, Va.)

Block 16. Building 03.

College of William & Mary - Buildings

Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg

Lantern slide featuring a hand-colored photograph of the front elevation of the Wren Building on the campus of the College of William & Mary. It is the sixth in a set produced by the Pacific Stereopticon Co. of Los Angeles, California, now defunct, to illustrate the story of Goodwin's dream to restore a portion of Williamsburg, Virginia to its 18th-century appearance as a shrine to early American ideals.

The slide consists of a view of the East elevation of the Wren Building, College of William & Mary, taken by F.S. Lincoln in 1935. One of the oldest academic structures in the United States, the Wren Building retains a large portion of its original outside walls, despite being damaged by several fires in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The building's features are thought to be based upon an adaptation of a Sir Christopher Wren design.

Pacific Stereopticon Co.

1935

Pacific Stereopticon Co. Lantern Slide Collection

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Image

PSC-006

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

Lantern slide

2 x 3 inches