College of William and Mary, President's House, Colonial Williamsburg
- Title:
- College of William and Mary, President's House, Colonial Williamsburg
- Collection:
- Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection
- Creator:
- Cary, Henry (American architect-builder, active in Williamsburg, Va, ca.1680-1749)
Lincoln, Fay Sturtevant (American photographer, 1894-1975)
- Creation Date:
- 1733 (building)
ca. 1934-ca. 1950 (photograph)
- Location:
- Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
- Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 545
- Accession Number:
- 15/5/3090.00545
- Collection Number:
- 15-5-3090
- File Name:
- 00545.jpg
- Style/Period:
- American Colonial
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- universities (buildings)
University campuses
Benches
dormers
Brick walls
Steps
historic sites
President's House, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
photographs - Measurement:
- 24.13 x 19.05 (centimeters)
- Description:
- "Every president of the more than 300-year-old College of William and Mary but one has lived in its President's House. The brick Georgian home on the north side of the College yard also has sheltered General Cornwallis and French officers recovering from wounds sustained before Yorkt own. Construction of the five-bay, hip-roofed house began July 31, 1732. . . [Henry Cary] built what a contemporary called 'a common brick house' with few pretensions. Be that as it may, there were few buildings in the countryside that equaled it, and not many in town that surpassed it. Completed in 1733, the President's House brought symmetry to the original campus, and symmetry was a matter of moment. With the Brafferton to its south and the Wren Building to its west, the President's House completed a U-shape that opened on Duke of Gloucester Street." Source: Colonial Williams burg Web Site:
- Source:
- Data from: A.D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library
http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/adw/albumen.htm - Cite As:
- Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photograph Collection, #15-5-3090. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Andrew Dickson White architectural photograph collection
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in this collection are in the public domain and are believed to have no known U.S. copyright or other restrictions. The Library does not charge for permission to use these materials and does not grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute them. However, as a good scholarly practice we recommend that all patrons cite the Library as the source of the reproduction. For a more detailed explanation please read the Library Guidelines for Using Public Domain Text, Images, Audio, and Video Reproduced from Cornell University Library Collections at http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright.