Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s interest in colonial Virginia buildings extended beyond the collection he and the Reverend Dr. W. A. R. Goodwin acquired, restored, and reconstructed in Williamsburg.
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Update on the Virtual Kitchen.
North side of the Anderson kitchen in 1776.
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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A Virtual Armoury!
Virtual Armoury
Recently a new reconstruction project has gotten underway. No, we have not begun rebuilding another site in town, but instead we have started reconstructing the Armoury Site…virtually. Using skills that would be foreign to our 18th-century predecessors, computer modelers from Colonial Williamsburg’s Digital History Center are hard at work creating a “Virtual Armoury” to complement the ongoing physical reconstruction.
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Can you find the gaol in this picture?
When Rockefeller and Goodwin teamed up to purchase and restore Williamsburg’s historic properties in the ’20s, many of the structures were unrecognizable to their former — and what would become their future — selves. Zoom in on this period photo of the Public Gaol and compare it to the one you’ll see today on Nicholson Street….