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Putting back together the pieces
60th anniversary, Colonial Williamsburg invites guests to take a trip back to 1926 when the restoration began and discover how the 173-acre Historic Area took shape.
The story is revealed in five Colonial weekend hotel packages this winter. The theme of the weekends is “Williamsburg; Before and After,” and they are offered January 24-26, January 31-February 2, February 79 and 14-16 and March 7-9.
Each weekend gives guests the opportunity to contrast the sleepy Williamsburg of the 1920’s with the restored 18th-century capital that a million people now visit each year.
More than 60 years ago, the Rev. W. A. R. Goodwin, rector of Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, inspired John D. Rockefeller Jr. to dream of turning the clock back at Williamsburg. Goodwin and Rockefeller wanted modem visitors to see the colonial capital as it stood when Seorge Washington and Patrick Henry walked its streets.
Thus Rockefeller began to fund the preservation and restoration irocess which continues today. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation was formed and the Boston architectural firm of Perry, Shaw and Hepbum started developing a plan.
The architects had 88 original buildings which formed the skeleton of their design. A 1782 map of Williamsburg, probably drawn by a French cartigrapher, helped them flesh out their town plan with more than 400 additional structures.
Exact details of key buildings in ' Williamsburg came from the ca. 1735 . engraved copper plate found in the Bodleian Library at Oxford Univer; sity. Archaeology, intensive re’ search and the study of similar 18thcentury buildings further enabled ' Colonial Williamsburg to preserve and rebuild the city piece by piece, an ongoing process today.
Foundation architects and architectural historians tell the stopr of the process during each Colonial weekend this winter. A slide-lecture and walking tour of the Historic Area focus on “Williamsburg; Before and After” the restoration.
Then guests have the chance to talk further with the historians at a Saturday evening reception and “groaning board” dinner which brings back the ambiance of a colonial table “groaning” under the weight of so many platters. Peanut soup, poached flounder, roast beef, Sally Lunn bread, and sour cherry trifle are just a sampling of the dishes featured.
The weekend package also includes a Friday evening reception offering Virginia peanuts and hot ciof * more
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