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Essential Architecture- the South Williamsburg Palace of the Governors |
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architect |
Henry Cary |
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location |
Williamsburg, VA. |
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date |
1706-20, 1751, reconstructed 1928-34 (H:1749-51) |
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style |
Georgian |
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construction |
Brick |
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type |
Government |
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| a: plan, from Fiske Kimball, Domestic
Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic (New York,
1922), fig. 74. |
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| b: view from south, (U. Penn. slide coll.:
gift). |
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| c: entrance court, photo 1954, R. C. Smith
(U. Penn. slide coll.). |
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| d: view from northwest, photo 1954, R. C.
Smith (U. Penn. slide coll.). |
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| e: ballroom entry, photo 1954, R. C. Smith
(U. Penn. slide coll.). |
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| f: ballroom, photo 1954, R. C. Smith (U.
Penn. slide coll.). |
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| g: hall, photo 1954, R. C. Smith (U. Penn.
slide coll.). |
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| h: second floor hall, photo 1954, R. C.
Smith (U. Penn. slide coll.). |
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links |
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| Special thanks to the Society of Architectural Historians for some of the images on this page (copyright SAH). |
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| www.essential-architecture.com | |