The Governor's Palace, Colonial Williamsburg
- Title:
- The Governor's Palace, 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:
- ca. 1934-ca. 1950 (photograph)
1706-1722 (building)
- Location:
- Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
- Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 561
- Accession Number:
- 15/5/3090.00561
- Collection Number:
- 15-5-3090
- File Name:
- 00561.jpg
- Style/Period:
- American Colonial
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- historic sites
History
palaces
Brick walls
gates
Escutcheons (Coats of arms)
Lions
unicorns
animals by form
Imaginary/Mythological creatures
balconies
dormers
Widows' walks
cupolas
weathervanes
Governor's Palace, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia
photographs - Measurement:
- 18.7325 x 24.13 (centimeters)
- Description:
- "A professor from the College of William and Mary sketched a Williamsburg vista in a book published in 1724, when the city was just 25 years old. 'From the Church,' he said, 'runs a Street northward called Palace Street
at the other end of which stands the Palace or Governor's House , a magnificent Structure built at the publick Expense, finished and beautified with Gates, Fine Gardens, Offices, Walks, a fine Canal, Orchards, &c. . . . This likewise has the ornamental Addition of a good Cupola or Lanthorn, illuminated with most of the Town, upon Birth-Nights, and other Nights o f occasional Rejoicings.' The Governor's Palace officially had been finished two years before (in 1722), after 16 years of fitful building. But it stood now, one of the finest homes of its kind in America, as a physical metaphor for the position vice royalty enjoyed in the capital of England's largest American colony." S ource: Colonial Williamsburg 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.