Colonial Williamsburg
Official Guidebook & Map Containing a brief History of the City
and Descriptions of more than One
Hundred Dwelling-Houses, Shops &
publick Buildings, fully illustrated.
Also a large Guide Map.

Front Cover:

This is a very nice, vintage guide book to Colonial Williamsburg. This soft cover book was published in 1960 by Colonial Williamsburg, Incorporated, Williamsburg, Virginia. The book measures 5 ¼ inches by 7 ½ inches and contains xx, 108 pages. The cover shows minor signs of wear and is securely attached. The pages show no signs of rips. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this book is very good.


Contents:
An Introduction to Williamsburg

  • Williamsburg Becomes the Capital
  • Williamsburg and the Revolution
  • Prelude to Independence
  • Craft Shops
  • The Years Between
  • Town Plan of Williamsburg
  • Architecture of Williamsburg
  • Public Buildings
  • Furnishings
  • Gardens of Williamsburg
  • Restoration of Williamsburg

    • The Information Center
    Duke of Gloucester Street
    York, Francis and France Streets
    Nicholson Street
    Palace Green
    Prince George Street
    South England Street
    Waller Street
    Index




    Back Cover

    Excerpt Introduction to Williamsburg:
    Each visitor to Williamsburg today steps back across the bridge of years to the little city which for nearly a century was capital of the Virginia Colony and focus of a proud plantation society. Eighteenth-century buildings, furnishings, and gardens again take their original form in this significant community. Trim carriages once more roll along Duke of Gloucester Street, a broad public way described by the late President Roosevelt as “the most historic avenue in all America.” Since 1926, when the first colonial house was acquired, the American past has been brought to life in an area nearly a mile in length. This work has been carried out by Colonial Williamsburg, Incorporated, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the purpose “That the Future May Learn from the Past.”

    The visitor to Williamsburg will see the neat, weather boarded houses of colonial days, with their broad based Virginia chimneys, set in formal gardens, together with handsome English and American furnishings in the many buildings open to the public...
    End excerpt

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