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The James Semple House is a historic house on Francis Street in Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia. Built about 1770, it is a prominent early example of Classical Revival residential architecture, whose design has been attributed to Thomas Jefferson. [4] It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970. [3] [4]
The Randolph House is located in near the center of Colonial Williamsburg, at the northeast corner of Nicholson and North England Streets. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, appearing as a seven-bay main block with a single-story ell to the east. The main block is capped by a roof that is hipped at the western end and gabled at the eastern.
Location of Williamsburg in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Williamsburg, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. The locations of National ...
Building east of main house at Elsing Green: Tunstall, Virginia: 1690 Pinewoods (Lightfoot, Virginia) Lightfoot, Virginia: ca. 1690s Criss Cross: New Kent, Virginia: 1690 Restored in 1953, similar to Foster's Castle nearby. Nelson-Galt House Williamsburg, Virginia: 1695 Dendrochronology provided a date that preceded tradition.
Christiana Burdett Campbell (c. 1723 – March 25, 1792) was a colonial innkeeper from Williamsburg, Virginia. [1] [2] She started the business herself in an era where it was unusual for women to do so in the colony. [3] A replica of her tavern was built in Colonial Williamsburg and currently serves as a popular tourist attraction and ...
Brush-Everard House, 1718, Williamsburg; Carlyle House, 1753, Alexandria - home of John Carlyle, Scottish merchant; Carter's Grove, 1755, James City County — home of the Burwell family; Castle Hill, 1764, Albemarle County—home of Thomas Walker (explorer) and William Cabell Rives; Chatham Manor, 1768, Stafford County — home of William Fitzhugh
Richard Taliaferro (/ ˈ t ɒ l ɪ v ər / TOL-iv-ər; c. 1705 –1779) was a colonial architect and builder in Williamsburg, Virginia, in what is now the United States. Among his works is Wythe House , a Georgian -style building that was built in 1750 or 1755.
Lying along the center-line of the Virginia Peninsula, the area that became Williamsburg was some distance from both the James River and the York River, and the ground's elevation gradually decreased as it approached the shore of each. Near Williamsburg, College Creek and Queen's Creek fed into one of the two rivers. By anchoring each end on ...