Colonial Sense: Architecture: Houses: The White Pine Series: Virginia

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11 Houses

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	TUCKAHOE, GOOCHLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA. Built about 1707. The scene of Thomas Jefferson's boyhood. It is the oldest of the James River frame mansions. The house reveals an interesting plan which is "I" in shape: the library, drawing-room and stair hall in one wing, with the ball-room connections the rear wing, in which the dining-room, bedroom and second stair hall are located.
	TEDINGTON, SANDY POINT, CHARLES CITY COUNTY, VIRGINIA. Built in 1717. Named after a place in London. The house has massive walls of brick and from the first floor is weather-boarded over the inside brick casing; known in Colonial days as a "stock" building and supposed to be indestructible. The estate is on the James River.
	AN EARLY COTTAGE, FALMOUTH, VIRGINIA. Long dormers with sharp-peaked gables are characteristic of the early Southern houses.
	TUCKER HOUSE, WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA. The houses in this section followed the same general plan, the various departments located the ells or extensions clustered in a rambling manner about the central building. This house, like a majority of the Southern Colonial houses, has a bedroom on the ground floor. The windows are glazed with small panes set in lead.
	HOUSE OF PEYTON RANDOLPH, WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA. Mr. Randolph was the first President of the Continental Congress.
	HOUSE ON DUKE OF GLOUCESTER STREET, WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA. Williamsburg was founded in 1632. It was the center of Colonial growth in the South from 1698, when Governor Nicholson removed the seat of government from Jamestown to this place. The town contains many excellent examples of low picturesque wooden houses built in the latter part of the seventeenth century.
	RISING SUN TAVERN, FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA. There is a beautiful hall and stairway. All bedrooms have slanting ceilings. Washington slept at this place when he came to visit his mother.
	MARY WASHINGTON HOUSE, FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA. There are many interesting old houses in Fredericksburg, among them the frame cottage in which Mary the mother of Washington lived and where she died.
	MOUNT VERNON MANSION, FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA. Probably the most notable of Virginia plantations, the home of George Washington.
	THE GLIBE, POWHATAN COURT, VIRGINIA. An example of the use of a large central dormer with smaller ones on either side; characteristic of houses of this class in the South.
	THE PENDELTON HOUSE, NEAR RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. The early Virginia colonists built their houses of wood. A characteristic feature of these early houses was the chimney at each end built outside the house wall for its entire height. The occurrence of the gambrel is not nearly so frequent as in the North, and there are few examples of framing with the overhang.

Source: Research by Bryan Wright

Comments (2)

RickS 07/18/19	I used to work for a millwork company in Delaware. The owner had most of the White Pine Series books, original editions. They were kept in the break room and I spent a month of lunch times carefully going through them. They greatly fueled my love for early American architecture and woodworking. Very nice to have access to them again. Thanks.
bwright 07/31/19	Thanks Rick. We always loved the White Pine Series. Glad we could bring them alive here.