Colonial House. Historical Interior Details Now enter the house, close the door with the large brass box lock, and stand on the heart pine flooring which is throughout the house. You have entered a center passage that extends from the front to the back of the house with the back door under a transom window […]
Colonial House With the exception of the lantern lights on the back porch and the carriage house, you will also notice there appears to be no exterior lighting. A small recessed fixture in the ceiling of the front porch roof illuminates the porch for guests. There is an identical light fixture in the soffit about […]
Colonial House As you approach the front of the house, notice there is a vertical corner board to the right of the front porch door. This corner board is where the original house ended before the space between the house and kitchen was filled in. The seam continues down through the brick on the foundation […]
Colonial Plantation House – Part 6 Historical Exterior Details Our house looks as described above and has roof framing for a true gambrel roof. Modern gambrel roof houses today have the roof line kicked out beyond the exterior vertical walls to make it look like a gambrel roof house. The true gambrel roof was achieved […]
Colonial House This colonial plantation house is the house in which we now live, as though it had been built and expanded as just described. One important item we learned during our research is that there was no standard “cookie cutter” design; each property owner might have used the center passage plan but also applied individual […]
Colonial House The small house in which they live has become crowded so he connects the house to the kitchen building, which had to be raised to make the floor flush with the house floor, with a large edition for a new dining room and study. The study contained book shelves to house his extensive […]
Colonial House His wealth steadily increases, as does the size of his family, and he becomes a middling farmer. A middling farmer would have been a landowner able to vote but just below the two percent gentry ruling class. With increasing wealth, he buys a carriage so he and his family can travel to the […]
Colonial House First, he clears a house site in the middle of his property, erecting a rudimentary earth-fast cabin (an earth-fast building has no foundation and is built with vertical posts set in the ground). He marries, raises a family, and within a few years he has earned enough money from selling timber to build […]
Gracefield Hall hosted the Brick Yard Dinner. What we hope to make it an annual event; the Colonial Williamsburg Masonry Trades crew was here for a kiln pre-firing dinner on Sunday evening, November 15th. Patricia made a kiln cake complete with tunnel doors, “brick” platting on the top (actually chopped up Jelly Belly jelly beans), colonial […]
