Trades
- apothecary
- blacksmith
- bookbinder
- brickmaker
- cabinetmaker
- carpenter
- cooped
- foodways
- foundry
- gunsmith
- historic farmer
- historic gardener
- joiner
- leatherworker
- milliner
- mantau-maker
- printer
- shoemaker
- silversmith
- tailor
- tin shop
- weaver
- wheelright
- wigmaker
Glossary
- Capitol
- H-shaped plan
- Council Chamber
- House of Burgesses
- piazza
- Speaker’s chair
- squaring off
- projecting apsidial southern end
- two-story portico
- foundation
- engraving
- reconstruction
- brickwork
- Flemish bond with glazed headers
- rubbed bricks
- brick house
- hall
- chamber
- putlog holes
- masons
- scaffolding
- pleasure garden
- sundial
- antebellum
- addition
- restored
- coffee house
- penny universities
- lodging
- porch
- tavern
- framing members
- trim
- doors
- windows
- shutters
- architectural fragments
- interior finishes
- exterior finishes
- paint colors
- peace pipe
- archaeological research
- architectural research
- traditional materials
- traditional methods
- small enclosed porch
- old-fashioned
- entertaining room
- central passages
- tavern keeper
- town jailer
- condemned
- razed
- insurance plats
- photograph
- tailor
- merchant
- store layout
- salesroom
- counting room
- residence
- storage
- restoration
- tavern keeper
- apothecary
- grocery
- archaeological excavation
- goldsmith
- glazier
- orchard
- pleached arbors
- vertical additions
- horizontal additions
- documentary evidence
- shed addition
- millinery
- four-square design
- storehouse
- vaulted cellar
- storage room
- wigmaker
- storehouse
- brick vaulted cellar
- collapsed
- cellar
- filled in
- blockade
- powder room
- wig
- bigwig
- semi-enclosed porch
- open porch
- original foundations
- apothecary shop
- unicorn’s horn
- general store
- jewelers
- goldsmiths
- silversmith
- rich metals
- alchemy
- gable-end facade
- counting office
- fireplace
- great room
- town hall
- kitchen garden
- dairy
- original framing
- off-white
- smokehouse
- eaves
- frame house
- shade garden
- lodging house
- store
- gunsmith’s shop
- tailor
- wellhead
- different roof slopes
- merchant
- off-center entrance door
- burgess
- city recorder
- clerk
- judge
- vestryman
- clerk’s office
- private law practice
- eighteenth-century frame house
- interior decoration
- Chinese porcelain
- Oriental carpets
- European tapestries
- modern American art
- American folk art
- historic interiors
- melting pots
- old brass
- shop window
- gable-end entrance
- neoclassicism
- architectural tastes
- pedimented gable
- flanking one-story wings
- office
- outbuilding
- shed closets
- stable
- structural timbers
- elongated hipped-roof
- Greek Revival
- Chinese-style railing
- entrance porch
- goal
- jail
- debtors’ cells
- tenement
- carpenter
- town constable
- councillor
- repair
- master tradesmen
- journeymen
- apprentices
- workmen
- building trades
- planks
- sawing
- hewing
- timbers
- splitting
- shingles
- carpentry
- joinery
- bricklaying
- plastering
- glazing
- house painting
- barracks
- stable
- undertaker
- general contractor
- carpenter’s yard
- excavated
- sawpits
- workshop
- tools
- arms repair facility
- metal manufactory
- magazine
- forges
- armorer’s workshop
- tin shop
- blacksmiths
- coal-fired forges
- hammer
- anvil
- vice
- files
- saws
- hardware
- architectural historians
- grocer
- dry goods
- china
- post office
- printing office
- post horn
- newspapers
- bookbindery
- loft
- side stair
- cellar cap
- exterior shutters
- fixed louvers
- air circulation
- double flight
- window grills
- gauged brickwork
- rubbed brickwork
- market house
- market square
- pump house
- guardhouse
- arsenal
- livery stable
- courthouse
- brick walls
- round-headed windows
- cantilevered pediment
- columned portico
- wide stair platform
- octagonal cupola
- weather vane
- side-passage house
- geometric cube
- steep gable roof
- T-shaped exterior chimneys
- English bond
- Masonic Lodge
- town house
- stringcourse
- molded brick
- wrought-iron balcony
- decorative front fence
- chinoiserie
- backstreet
- rental property
- treading pit
- drying beds
- oyster shell
- lime
- repair
- mortar
- grand stairway
- monumental roundheaded window
- dining room
- bedchamber
- laundry
- slave quarters
- hipped roof
- marble mantel
- milk house
- service buildings
- willow wattle fence
- sash windows
- Doric columns
- pediment
- classical architectural tradition
- privy
- raised brick foundations
- one-story wing
- flanking
- windmill
- post windmill
- timber post
- tail pole
- Governor’s Palace
- green
- gates
- lion
- unicorn
- crown
- furnishings
- scullery
- yard
- ballroom
- supper room
- drawings
- copper plate engraving
- falling gardens
- terraces
- canal
- dendrochronological testing
- tree-ring testing
- earthen terraces
- service buildings
- vistas
- wallpaper
- study
- coach
- phaeton
- riding chair
- wheelrights
- blacksmiths
- harness makers
- hubs
- spokes
- rims
- rubbed-and-gauged jack arches
- high hipped roof
- subtlety
- Prussian blue
- carriage
- cart
- chaise
- coach
- landau
- riding chair
- sociable
- stage wagon
- oxcart
- orrery
- lumber room
- pleasure garden
- kitchen garden
- work yard
- pleached American hornbeam arbor
- terminal focal point
- dependencies
- stables
- dovecote
- chicken coop
- necessaries
- staves
- metal hoops
- wooden hoops
- white oak
- red oak
- chestnut
- white cedar
- yellow pine
- straight-grained
- white coopers
- slack coopers
- tight coopers
- turned balusters
- carved stair brackets
- antiques
- center passage
- woodwork
- U-shaped plan
- wing
- open-air theater
- L-shaped plan
- corner lot
- interpreted
- reconstructed porch
- outline on the exterior weatherboarding
- weatherboarding
- sand moulds
- cast iron
- sterling
- brass
- bronze
- pewter
- bronze molds
- linen
- hempen fabric
- canvas
- tents
- bedding
- sailcloth
- wool
- flax
- cotton
- raw materials
- looms
- dyers’ recipe books
- colored fibers
- colored cloth
- lumber
- construction materials
- ticket office
- public building
- cruciform
- colonial appearance
- gardener
- parterre garden
- crushed shell
- crushed brick
- English boxwood
- bell jars
- hotbeds
- cold frames
- gentleman’s pleasure garden
- ordinary
- rebus
- wooden mantelpiece
- wooden molding
- wooden wainscoting
- architectural ornaments
- joiner
- joiners
- window sash
- tavern table
- wooden carriage house
- recollections
- parterres
- public hospital
- pictorial signboard
- signboard
- symbols
- planned shopping district
- living history
- living history museum
- college town
- historic buildings
- material culture
- architectural history
- historical preservation
Source Citation
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Colonial Williamsburg: The Guide. Guilford, Connecticut: Globe Pequot. 2019.