Governor's Palace
| Governor's Palace | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
| Historic District Contributing Property | |||
 Governor's Palace (2006) |
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| location | Williamsburg , Virginia | ||
| Coordinates | 37 ° 16 '27.3 " N , 76 ° 42' 7.6" W | ||
| Built | 1927-1934 | ||
| architect | Perry, Shaw and Hepburn | ||
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival Architecture | ||
| NRHP number | 66000925 | ||
| The NRHP added | October 15, 1966 | ||
The Governor's Palace (Eng. Governor's Palace ) in Williamsburg (Virginia) which is the reconstruction of a historic building.
Built between 1705 and 1720, the original governor's palace served as the residence of seven British governors of the Crown Colony of Virginia . It burned out on December 22nd, 1781. As part of the plans in the 1920s to turn Williamsburg into a living museum of American colonialism , he was employed by the Perry, Shaw and Hepburn architects from 1927 to 1934 based on old templates and plans (including a hand drawing by Thomas Jefferson ) original place rebuilt. As a key financier of the project took John D. Rockefeller, Jr. on. An attempt was and is being made to reconstruct the historical ambience as realistically as possible. The emergence of new documents about the interior design at the time required several adjustments to the furniture. The rebuilt governor's palace was opened to the public on April 23, 1934 and has been one of the main attractions of the museum town ever since.
