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The Wythe House is a historic house on the Palace Green in Colonial Williamsburg, in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. Built in the 1750s, it was the home of George Wythe, signer of the Declaration of Independence and father of American jurisprudence. [4] [5] The property was declared a National Historic Landmark on April 15, 1970. [4] [5]
Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830. It is named after the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover , George I , George II , George III , and George IV , who reigned in continuous succession from August 1714 to June 1830.
Ratcliffe Manor is located in Talbot County's town of Easton, Maryland.The property is on a peninsula formed by the Tred Avon River and Dixon Creek. [1] [ Note 1] Henry Hollyday began accumulating materials for the construction of the Ratcliffe Manor house in 1755, and expected to start building in 1757. [3]
Remarkably well preserved for its age, Bel Air is pre-Georgian brick house on a raised stone basement. The house measures 38 × 51 feet. [40] It contains elements of Tidewater architecture while using a center plan typical of later Georgian period homes. It appears to be a transitional house between the southern colonial and the Georgian styles ...
Josiah Dennis House, Dennis, Massachusetts, built 1735, Georgian colonial Hope Lodge, Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania, built 1750, Georgian colonial. Georgian buildings, popular during the reigns of King George II and King George III were ideally built in brick, with wood trim, wooden columns and painted white. In what would become the United ...
Learn all there is to know about Georgian houses, including their distinct architectural features and interesting history.
Rokeby is a Georgian house near Leesburg, Virginia, built in the mid-18th century.The house is the best example of Georgian architecture in Loudoun County.Rokeby served as a repository for U.S. Government documents during the British occupation and burning of Washington in 1814 during the War of 1812.
The Cheesman-Evans-Boettcher Mansion is a formal, late Georgian Revival house. The building is surrounded by a wrought iron fence with cannonball finials on the brick posts. The walls of the mansion are red brick. There is a white wooden frosting under a hipped roof with prominent gabled dormers. The cornice is pedimented and dentiled.