The Cabinetmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg Giving Attention to the City's Chief Craftsmen in the Furniture Way; And to Their Tools & Methods of Working

In the American colonies the Queen Anne style did not come into full flower until 1725 or thereabouts. The "decorated Queen Anne" or early Georgian substyles cannot be clearly d...

It is the very same chair that stood there when the portly Peyton Randolph was speaker of the House, and men like George Mason and Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry raised alof...

Although Dunmore's tools and lumber were probably destined for the plantation he was seating near Warm Springs as a private venture, the possibility cannot be dismissed that som...