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The Governor's Palace, Colonial Williamsburg
Photographer: Fay Sturtevant Lincoln
Architect: Henry Cary
Photograph date: ca. 1934-ca. 1950
Building date: 1706-1722
Notes: “A professor from the College of William and Mary sketched
a Williamsburg vista in a book published in 1724, when the city
was just 25 years old. 'From the Church,' he said, 'runs a Street
northward called Palace Street; at the other end of which stands
the Palace or Governor's House, a magnificent Structure built at
the publick Expense, finished and beautified with Gates, Fine Gardens,
Offices, Walks, a fine Canal, Orchards, &c. . . . This likewise
has the ornamental Addition of a good Cupola or Lanthorn, illuminated
with most of the Town, upon Birth-Nights, and other Nights of occasional
Rejoicings.' The Governor's Palace officially had been finished
two years before (in 1722), after 16 years of fitful building. But
it stood now, one of the finest homes of its kind in America, as
a physical metaphor for the position vice royalty enjoyed in the
capital of England's largest American colony.”
Source: Colonial Williamsburg Web
Site
Credit Line: Transfer from the College of Architecture, Art &
Planning
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