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Identifier: histvirginiahome00lanc (find matches)
Title: Historic Virginia homes and churches
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Lancaster, Robert A. (Robert Alexander), 1862-1940
Subjects: Historic buildings Church buildings
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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s back from Jamestown and the river. Itsname was changed forthwith to Williamsburg after thereigning king of England and Virginia. The first jjlanwas to lay out the streets to form a monogram of the lettersW and M, the initials of their majesties William and Mary,hut this was abandoned. Instead, Duke of GloucesterStreet and its parallel thoroughfares were intersected atright angles by other highways bearing names suggestiveof royalty and state. Along these streets many of thehouses, where the lights of other days lived and moved andhad their being, may still be found. The Capitol and Governors Palace have disappeared,but the site of the former is preserved; the Palace Greenis the Palace Green still, and the college and the churchstill carry on the good works for which they were originallydesigned. willia:\i and siary college In the midst of its shady campus stands William and)Mary, looking straight up the Duke of Gloucester Street,which was originally closed at the opposite end by the
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WILLIAMSBURG 13 Capitol building and grounds. It is built after tbe favoriteColonial manner, of red brick with glazed headers, andwith a triple-arched brick porch and a white cupola. Somedistance in the foreground, upon the main walk, is a whitemarble statue of Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt1718-1770), Governor-in-chief of Virginia 178 to 1770,with a high-flown inscription. William and JMary was the first American college saveone, the first to have chairs of Law, Political Economy,^Modern Languages and History, the first to establishelective and honor systems and class lectm-es and to awardmedals, and its Phi Beta Kappa was the first (xreek letterfraternity in the LTnited States. It was through the untiring efforts of the ReverendJames Blair, D.D. (1655-171^3), Rector of Bruton Parish,that the College Charter was granted, in 1693, by theirgracious majesties whose names it bears: that the Churchin Virginia may be fm-nished with a seminary of ^Ministersof the Gospel, and

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