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HABS VA,48-WIL,16- (sheet 5 of 10) - George Wythe House, 101 Palace Green Street, Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA
Title
HABS VA,48-WIL,16- (sheet 5 of 10) - George Wythe House, 101 Palace Green Street, Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA
Description
Taliaferro, Richard
Depicted place Virginia; Williamsburg; Williamsburg
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS VA,48-WIL,16- (sheet 5 of 10)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Richard Taliaferro built the Wythe House between 1752 and 1754. He was a planter, designer, architect as well as a builder of "undertaker." In 1755 George Wythe married Taliaferro's daughter, Elizabeth, and probably occupied the house at that time. Wythe became a distinguished lawyer, legislator, teacher, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. The house is among the best examples of Tidewater Virginia residential architecture of the Georgian period. Its uncommonly handsome elevations, sophisticated brickwork, and simple wood details evidence a strict set of geometrical relationships carefully worked out. The Wythe House is owned by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, which restored it in 1940.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-217
  • Survey number: HABS VA-1009
  • Building/structure dates: 1754 Initial Construction
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Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/va1028.sheet.00005a
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