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  2. Virginia furniture - Wikipedia

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    Scholars and Virginia historians have come to understand that in early colonial and Federal years, Virginia had a more vibrant furniture industry than first realized. [4] Styles included Chippendale, Queen Anne and vernacular styles. As Virginia citizens emigrated west, Virginia stylists and furniture makers took their patterns and styles with ...

  3. Kittinger Company - Wikipedia

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    The Kittinger Company was founded in Buffalo, New York, in 1866 as "Thompson, Colie & Co." Around 1870 the company began crafting hand-made upholstered furniture and by this time had changed its name to "Colie & Son" after George and Oliver Colie took control. The furniture business proved so successful for the Colie's that in 1885 they built a ...

  4. William and Mary style - Wikipedia

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    A William and Mary style cabinet with oyster veneering and parquetry inlays. What later came to be known as the William and Mary style is a furniture design common from 1700 to 1725 in the Netherlands, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland and Kingdom of Ireland, and later in England's American colonies. It was a transitional style between ...

  5. Johannes Spitler - Wikipedia

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    Johannes Spitler (October 2, 1774 – April 18, 1837) was an American painter of furniture. A blanket chest made between 1800-1805 and painted by Johannes Spitler, on display in the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, Virginia. Little is recorded about Spitler's life, but he is known to have been born in the community of Massanutten ...

  6. American colonial architecture - Wikipedia

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    American colonial architecture. Lower Swedish Cabin, Drexel Hill, Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, built ca. 1640–1650, may be one of the oldest log cabins in the United States. American colonial architecture includes several building design styles associated with the colonial period of the United States, including First Period English ...

  7. Montpelier (Orange, Virginia) - Wikipedia

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    September 9, 1969 [2] James Madison's Montpelier, located in Orange County, Virginia, was the plantation house of the Madison family, including Founding Father and fourth president of the United States James Madison and his wife, Dolley. The 2,650-acre (1,070 ha) property is open seven days a week. Montpelier was declared a National Historic ...

  8. Thomas Day (cabinetmaker) - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Day (c. 1801–1861) was an American furniture craftsman and cabinetmaker in Milton, Caswell County, North Carolina. [1] Born into a free African-American family in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Day moved to Milton in 1817 and became a highly successful businessman, boasting the largest and most productive workshop in the state during the ...

  9. Colony of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The Colony of Virginia was a British, colonial settlement in North America between 1606 and 1776. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years. In 1590, the colony was abandoned.

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