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CALL NUMBER: 725.1509 LOU
OBJECT TYPE: Book
TITLE: The Courthouses of Early Virginia, An Architectural History
DESCRIPTION: Comprehensive history of the public buildings that formed the nucleus of this space and the important private buildings that grew up around them. Lounsbury surveys the architectural history of these buildings, from their undifferentiated forms in 1650 to 1800, when they had developed into specialized structures that reflected the growth of a wealthy agricultural society built on slave labor. After setting the context of legal and social affairs that conditioned the design, construction, and function of county government buildings, he examines the example of Yorktown. He then proceeds with a thematic exploration of issues including the rise of courthouses of greater civic aspiration and aesthetic ambition, the public building process, attitudes toward punishment and prisons, and the role of taverns and clerk’s offices in the legal process. He concludes with a discussion of the evolution of the courthouse grounds into the broader civic squares that characterized many Virginia cities and towns by the early nineteenth century. With abundant drawings, photographs, and maps and a checklist of important public buildings in early Virginia. INCLUDES INFORMATION ON LANCASTER COUNTY COURT HOUSES, CLERKS OFFICE, AND JAILS.
AUTHOR: Lounsbury, Carl
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SERIES: Colonial Williamsburg Studies in Chesapeake history and culture
PUBLICATION DATE: 2005
PUBLISHER: University of Virginia Press
PLACE OF PUBLICATION: Charlottesville VA
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