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Bibliography, Williamsburg

Carson, Barbara. Governor’s Palace: The Williamsburg Residence of Virginia’s Royal Governor. Williamsburg: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1987.

Chappell, Edward. “James Geddy Builds His Dream House.” The Interpreter, November 1993.

Chappell, Edward. “Re-Translating the Past.” The Interpreter 20 (1999), 5-11.

Chappell, Edward. “Understanding Williamsburg’s Houses.” The Interpreter, June 1994.

Chappell, Edward. “Williamsburg Architecture as Social Space.” Fresh Advices, November 1981.

Chappell, Edward and Travis McDonald. “Containing Madness: The Architecture of the Public Hospital,” Colonial Williamsburg, Spring 1985.

Gilliam, Jan and Betty Leviner. Furnishing Williamsburg’s Historic Buildings. Williamsburg: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1991.

Graham, Willie. “In Search of George and Elizabeth Wythe’s House.” The Interpreter, May 1993.

Graham, Willie. “Renovating the Wythe House.” The Colonial Williamsburg Journal 16 (1993), 1.

Graham, Willie and Mark R. Wenger. “A House Befitting Mr. Attorney.” The Interpreter (1999), 19-24.

Hood, Graham. The Governor’s Palace in Williamsburg: A Cultural Study. Williamsburg: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1991.

Hosmer, Charles B. “The Colonial Revival in the Public Eye: Williamsburg and Early Garden Restoration.” In Colonial Revival in America. Ed. by Alan Axelrod. New York: Norton, 1985.

Hosmer, Charles B. Preservation Comes of Age: From Williamsburg to the National Trust, 1926-1949. 2 vols. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1982.

Kocher, Lawrence and Howard Dearstyne. “Discovery of the Foundations for Jefferson’s Addition to the Wren Building.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 10 (1951), 28-31.

Kornwolf, James. So Good a Design: The Colonial Campus of the College of William and Mary: Its History, Background, and Legacy. Williamsburg: College of William and Mary, Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1989.

Kutney, Mark. “Painting Peyton Randolph’s House.” The Interpreter. 20 (1999), 25-30.

Lounsbury, Carl. “Beaux-Arts Ideals and Colonial Reality: The Reconstruction of Williamsburg’s Capitol, 1928-1934.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 49 (December 1990), 373-389.

Lounsbury, Carl. “Changing Perceptions of the Restoration of Colonial Williamsburg.” Inform 11 (2000), 32-34.

Lounsbury, Carl. “Ornaments of Civic Aspiration: The Public Buildings of Williamsburg” In Williamsburg, Virginia: A City Before the State, Ed. by Robert Maccubbin, Williamsburg: The City of Williamsburg, 2000 , 25-38.

Maccubbin, Robert, ed. Williamsburg, Virginia: A City Before the State 1699-1999. Williamsburg: The City of Williamsburg, 2000.

Pritchard, Margaret and Willie Graham. “Rethinking two houses at Colonial Williamsburg.” The Magazine Antiques CXLIX, 1, (Jan. 1996), 166-175.

The Restoration of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. Reprint from The Architectural Record, (December 1935), New York: F.W. Doge, 1935.

Schless, Nancy. “Dutch Influence on the Governor’s Palace. Williamsburg,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 28 (December 1969), 254­270.

Taylor, Thomas. “Williamsburg Restoration and Its Reception by the American Public, 1926-1942.” PhD dissertation, George Washington University, 1989.

Wallace, Michael. “Visiting the Past: History Museums in the United States.” Radical History Review 25 (1981), 63-96.

Wenger, Mark R. “The Benjamin Powell House.” The Interpreter, (August 1993).

Wenger, Mark R. “Boomtown: Williamsburg in the Eighteenth Century.” In Williamsburg, Virginia: A City Before the State, Ed. by Robert Maccubbin. Williamsburg: The City of Williamsburg, 2000, 39-48.

Wenger, Mark R. “Investigations at the Brush-Everard House.” The Interpreter, March 1994.

Wenger, Mark R. “Mr. and Mrs. Randolph’s House Revisited.” The Interpreter, March 1993.

Wenger, Mark R. “Thomas Jefferson, the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 103 (July 1995), 339-374.

Whiffen, Marcus. The Eighteenth-Century Houses of Williamsburg. Williamsburg: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1960 and later editions.

Whiffen, Marcus. The Public Buildings of Williamsburg. Williamsburg: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1958.

Yetter, George. Williamsburg Before and After. Williamsburg: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1988.