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The success of Kittinger reproductions licensed by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation encouraged the Preservation Society of Newport County to license Kittinger to reproduce 18th-century pieces by the Goddard and Townsend families of cabinetmakers and other furniture made in colonial Newport, Rhode Island, in the Society's possession. Paper ...
Colonial Williamsburg is a living-history museum and private foundation presenting a part of the historic district in the city of Williamsburg, Virginia.Its 301-acre (122 ha) historic area includes several hundred restored or recreated buildings from the 18th century, when the city was the capital of the Colony of Virginia; 17th-century, 19th-century, and Colonial Revival structures; and more ...
Engraved in the mid-18th century, it depicts various prominent structures in Williamsburg during its time as capital of Virginia: the College of William & Mary, the Capitol, and the Governor's Palace. Rediscovered in the 1920s in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England, it was used in the restorations and reconstructions during the 20th Century.
Merchants Square is a 20th-century interpretation of an 18th-century-style retail village in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3]
The American colonial diet varied depending on region, with local cuisine patterns established by the mid-18th century. A preference for British cooking methods is apparent in cookbooks brought to the New World. There was a general disdain for French cookery, even among the French Huguenots in South Carolina and French Canadians. [15]
During 1935 work to prepare the Ludwell–Paradise House for its use as the folk art museum, 18th-century materials from Bolling House in Petersburg provided paneling for the southwestern ground-floor room. [46] A majority of colonial-era Williamsburg buildings, including the Ludwell—Paradise House, did not utilize timber roof trusses.
Alamy Few places in the United States are more jam-packed with history than Colonial Williamsburg. The capital of Virginia from 1699 until 1780, Williamsburg was a hotbed of the American Revolution.
The Bodleian Plate is a copperplate depicting several colonial buildings of 18th-century Williamsburg, Virginia, as well as several types of native flora, fauna, and American Indians. Following its 1929 rediscovery in the archives of the Bodleian Library, it was used extensively in John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s reconstruction of Colonial Williamsburg.