Save the date! On September 28th, between 1:45 and 3:30, the Historic Trades Carpenters will raise the frame of the north storage building, the next building in the Armoury reconstruction. The Roving Webcam will be positioned to capture the action, so if you cannot be present on site, you’ll want to stay close to your computer monitor. …
Workmen in the Armoury
As we begin to set up the Armoury for operation, it is interesting to draw from the existing record a picture of the workmen in the shop between 1778 and 1780. The makeup of the workforce is rather intriguing.
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Tinsmithing at the Armoury.
Nathaniel Nuthall was hired by James Anderson on June 25th, 1779 as a “tinman”. Just what is a “tinman” and why was he needed in an Armoury?
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Update on the Virtual Kitchen.
While the Historic Trades carpenters continue their work on the real-world Armoury, computer modelers at Colonial Williamsburg’s Digital History Center are busy constructing its virtual incarnation. In an earlier post, we introduced the Virtual Williamsburg project and showed the AutoCAD models of the Armoury kitchen. Since then we have been hard at work adding the textures that will bring those line models to life! Here we present some of the first images of the recently reconstructed Anderson kitchen. (Please be sure to click on the small images below to get the full effect!)
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