Photo, Print, Drawing Shirley, 501 Shirley Plantation Road, Shirley, Charles City County, VA Colonial Williamsburg Agricultural Buildings Project
About this Item
Title
- Shirley, 501 Shirley Plantation Road, Shirley, Charles City County, VA
Other Title
- Colonial Williamsburg Agricultural Buildings Project
Names
- Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
- Carter, Charles
- Carter, John
- Carter, Robert "King"
- Hill, Elizabeth
- Peterson, Charles E., photographer
- Burns, Albert S., photographer
- Waterman, Thomas T., photographer
- Waterman, Thomas T., historian
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, sponsor
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Architectural Research Department, sponsor
- Grainger Department of Architectural Preservation and Research, sponsor
- Arzola, Robert R., project manager
- Klee, Jeffrey E., program coordinator
- Lavoie, Catherine C., editor
- Bernard, John J., Jr., field team
- Bostetter, Jeffrey L., field team
- Patrick, Vanessa, field team
- Carter, Tom, field team
- Chappell, Edward A., project manager
- Graham, William J., field team supervisor
- Taylor, Douglas R., field team
- Unknown, photographer
- McPartland, Mary, transmitter
Created / Published
- Documentation compiled after 1933
Headings
- - houses
- - Georgian architectural elements
- - tobacco plantations
- - domestic life
- - agriculture
- - slavery
- - paneling
- - brick buildings
- - stringcourses
- - dormers
- - porches
- - call buttons
- - sash windows
- - outbuildings
- - historic house museums
- - corn cribs
- - gardens
- - summer kitchens
- - dovecotes
- - stables
- - farming
- - plantations
- - plantation houses
- - Virginia--Charles City County--Shirley
Latitude / Longitude
- 37.341965,-77.261105
Notes
- - Significance: Shirley is well recognized as Virginia's oldest working plantation, possessing one of the state's finest Georgian houses, as well as for its association with the prominent Carter family. Construction of the house began ca. 1723, the year that Elizabeth Hill, heir to the Shirley tobacco plantation that had been in her family since 1638, married John Carter, son of Robert "King" Carter. The house was completed by 1738. It is an imposing two-and-a-half story, nearly square-shaped brick house with dormered hip roof and entrances at both the river and forecourt facades, identified by a substantial two-story porticoes. The house overlooks the James River to the west, with a view to the drive and forecourt to the east, along which can be found an impressive array of well-built brick dependencies. To their south and southeast are numerous outbuildings, also well-articulated if not as formally executed.
- - Survey number: HABS VA-388
- - Building/structure dates: ca. 1765 Subsequent Work
- - Building/structure dates: ca. 1723 Initial Construction
- - Building/structure dates: ca. 1770 Subsequent Work
- - Building/structure dates: 1987 Subsequent Work
- - Building/structure dates: 1965 Subsequent Work
- - National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 69000328
Medium
- Photo(s): 21
- Measured Drawing(s): 6
- Data Page(s): 6
- Photo Caption Page(s): 2
Call Number/Physical Location
- HABS VA,19-SHIR,1-
Source Collection
- Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Repository
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Control Number
- va0313
Rights Advisory
- No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
Online Format
- image
Part of
Format
Contributor
- Arzola, Robert R.
- Bernard, John J., Jr
- Bostetter, Jeffrey L.
- Burns, Albert S.
- Carter, Charles
- Carter, John
- Carter, Robert "King"
- Carter, Tom
- Chappell, Edward A.
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Architectural Research Department
- Graham, William J.
- Grainger Department of Architectural Preservation and Research
- Hill, Elizabeth
- Historic American Buildings Survey
- Klee, Jeffrey E.
- Lavoie, Catherine C.
- McPartland, Mary
- Patrick, Vanessa
- Peterson, Charles E.
- Taylor, Douglas R.
- Unknown
- Waterman, Thomas T.
Location
Language
Subject
- Agriculture
- Brick Buildings
- Call Buttons
- Corn Cribs
- Domestic Life
- Dormers
- Dovecotes
- Farming
- Gardens
- Georgian Architectural Elements
- Historic House Museums
- Houses
- Outbuildings
- Paneling
- Plantation Houses
- Plantations
- Porches
- Sash Windows
- Slavery
- Stables
- Stringcourses
- Summer Kitchens
- Tobacco Plantations