Historic Site: Raleigh Tavern - Colonial Williamsburg
WEBThe Raleigh Tavern served as a critical stage for Virginia's political ambitions amid intensifying debate about liberty, ultimately leading to our nation's independence. As you tour this site, you will learn about different perspectives on the extraordinary events that took place here.
Architectural drawings for a tavern ("Raleigh Tavern") for …
WEBIncludes preliminary and working drawings showing tavern, mantels, and paneling as plans, elevations, and details; electrical systems drawings; photographs and miscellaneous supplementary materials.
Raleigh Tavern : The Colonial Williamsburg Official History ...
WEBDrawings from Lossing's book, A Pictorial Field-Book of the American Revolution, and insurance policy sketches permitted precise reconstruction. 18th-century inventories informed the the tavern's refurnishing. Restored Raleigh dedicated in 1932
Raleigh Tavern Architectural Report Block 17 Building 6A Lot 54 ...
WEBThe design of Raleigh Tavern exterior was controlled by a crude sketch made in 1846 by Benson J. Lossing to illustrate his "Pictorial Field Book of the American Revolution".
Raleigh Tavern Architectural Report Block 17 Building 6A
WEBThe reconstructed interior layout of the Raleigh offers further support for this conclusion. York County records indicate that Henry Bowcock was keeping tavern on this site by 1717. At this early date, the tavern had not yet emerged as a distinct building type.
Raleigh Tavern - SAH ARCHIPEDIA
WEBPerry, Shaw and Hepburn were able to base the form of the building and its room arrangements on the archaeological footprint and two 1848 engravings by Benson Lossing, but they drew most of the interior details from eighteenth-century Virginia houses.
Raleigh Tavern - Wikipedia
WEBThe Raleigh Tavern was a tavern in Williamsburg, Virginia, and was one of the largest taverns in colonial Virginia. It gained some fame in the pre- American Revolutionary War Colony of Virginia as a gathering place for legislators after several Royal Governors officially dissolved the House of Burgesses, the elected legislative body, when their ...
Raleigh Tavern Porch : The Colonial Williamsburg Official History ...
WEBLast summer's archaeological dig unearthed evidence the Raleigh Tavern had three different porches between the tavern's establishment in 1717 and its destruction in 1859. The first porch was built in 1734 as an enclosure at the front door.
Raleigh Tavern, Parlor · John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial ...
WEBInterior of Raleigh Tavern's Common Dining Room, 1935. The portrait above the fireplace features the Marquis de Lafayette (accession # 1930-593), the young French major general who commanded an American division under General Washington at …
The Raleigh Tavern - US History
WEBRegaring the interior illustration (page 280), Lossing laments, "The room used for public meetings is in the rear building of the old Raleigh tavern at Williamsburg, and up to the day of my visit it had remained unaltered.