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University of Virginia publishes Carl Lounsbury’s book on early Virginia courthouses

In 2006, the University of Virginia Press published Carl Lounsbury’s The Courthouses of Early Virginia: An Architectural History, the product of over two decades of original fieldwork and documentary research. In it, Dr. Lounsbury describes the many structures that populated the courthouse grounds and places them in the changing social and legal contexts of 17th- and 18th-century Virginia. It is the first comprehensive history of these buildings and establishes a compelling standard for their interpretation. It is, as the William and Mary Quarterly put it, "architectural history at its finest."

Review in William & Mary Quarterly (PDF)

Description in University of Virginia Press catalog

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