The Governor's Palace in Williamsburg

The Governor's Palace in Williamsburg
Author: Graham Hood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1991
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

The sixty-one living and working spaces in the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg contained more than sixteen thousand objects just before the American Revolution. Each supplied a key to deciphering daily life in the Virginia colony.

Our Governors' Mansions

Our Governors' Mansions
Author: Cathy Keating
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1997-09
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Glossy color photographs lavishly depict the residences of the governors of 44 states (six states do not have governor's mansions). Each state's mansion receives its own section picturing public and private rooms, exterior and grounds, and artworks and furnishings within. Text combines architectural description and attention to interior decoration with historical anecdotes and occasional reference to the lives of the residents; Keating, First Lady of the State of Oklahoma, assures us in her introduction that "First Families are people, too."Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Governor's Houses and State Houses of British Colonial America, 1607-1783

Governor's Houses and State Houses of British Colonial America, 1607-1783
Author: Hoke P. Kimball
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2017-05-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0786470518

This comprehensive survey of British colonial governors' houses and buildings used as state houses or capitols in the North American colonies begins with the founding of the Virginia Colony and ends with American independence. In addition to the 13 colonies that became the United States in 1783, the study includes three colonies in present-day Florida and Canada--East Florida, West Florida and the Province of Quebec--obtained by Great Britain after the French and Indian War.

Life in the English Country House

Life in the English Country House
Author: Mark Girouard
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1978-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300058703

Based on the author's Slade lectures given at Oxford University in 1975-76.

Under the Palace Portal

Under the Palace Portal
Author: Karl A. Hoerig
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780826329103

A study of the Native American Vendors Program, which provides Santa Fe-area American Indian vendors space under the Portal of the Palace of the Governors to sell jewelry, pottery, and other items they have made.

Restoring Williamsburg

Restoring Williamsburg
Author: George Humphrey Yetter
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0300248350

This up-to-date and comprehensive look at the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg illuminates the important role it has played in our understanding of 18th-century America.

VIEWS OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS IN

VIEWS OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS IN
Author: Frederick Catherwood
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2016-08-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781363110322

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