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Williamsburg Before and After: The Rebirth of Virginia's Colonial Capital
Relié / 198 pages / édition de 1988
langue(s) : anglais
ISBN : 0879350776
EAN : 9780879350772
dimensions : 248 (h) x 295 (l) x 24 (ép) mm
poids : 1290 grammes
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IN Williamsburg Before and After: The Rebirth of Virginia's Colonial Capital, George Yetter's delightfully informative text explains how the re-creation of the eighteenth-century city came about. Beginning with the establishment of the new capital in 1699, the author describes the Williamsburg that flourished during the years when George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, George Wythe, and other patriot leaders walked its streets. Yetter traces the gradual deterioration following the removal of the capital to Richmond in 1780, a process that was hastened by the Civil War. Finally, he tells the exciting story of how the Reverend W. A. R. Goodwin and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., worked together to save Williamsburg's past.

Old photographs, daguerreotypes, water-colors, sketches, maps, and other illustrations capture the flavor of "pre-restoration" Williamsburg and record how the sleepy town looked before one of America's premier projects in historic preservation began. Lovely full-color "after" photographs show how the vision and dream that Goodwin and Rockefeller shared have been fulfilled.

In 1699, Virginia's legislators voted to move the capital of the colony from Jamestown to Middle Plantation, which they renamed Williamsburg in honor of King William III of England. Governor Francis Nicholson took the initiative in designing a comprehensive town plan for Virginia's new capital. He laid out Duke of Gloucester Street, stretching nearly a mile from the recently established College of William and Mary at the west to the new Capitol building at the east.

Other public buildings — the Governor's Palace, Bruton Parish Church, Powder Magazine, Gaol, Courthouse, and Public Hospital — became landmarks of the urban town plan. Private residences, stores, and taverns sprang up. For eighty-one years, Williamsburg was the political, social, and cultural center of Britain's largest and most populous North American colony.

Then, during the American Revolution, the capital moved to Richmond, which was regarded as safer and more central. Williamsburg stepped backstage in history. The "town that time forgot" declined, its former importance buried in history and memory as well as in the weathered colonial buildings that survived to stir the imagination of those who envisioned the city restored to its original beauty and dignity.

One of those who dreamed of preserving the historic part of the old city of Williamsburg was the Reverend W. A. R. Goodwin, a former rector of Bruton Parish Church. Goodwin communicated his vision and dream to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who, beginning in 1926, devoted his personal attention and resources to the preservation and restoration of eighteenth-century Williamsburg. Together they turned their vision and dream into reality.

George Yetter holds master's degrees in English from the University of Missouri and in architectural history from the University of Virginia, where his thesis covered architect Stanford White's 1895 renovation of the Rotunda. His interest in architectural history and the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg stems from attendance at a summer session at the College of William and Mary and descent from one of the original founders of the college, a rector of St. Stephen's Parish in the Northern Neck. The author is the archivist for the architecture and archaeology drawings collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
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