Captain George Preston Blow house,Route 1005,Main Street,Yorktown,Virginia
'York Hall,' Captain George Preston Blow house, Route 1005 and Main Street, Yorktown, Virginia. Guest house in Memory Garden
Title: ['York Hall,' Captain George Preston Blow house, Route 1005 and Main Street, Yorktown, Virginia. Guest house in Memory Garden]
Creator(s): Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer
Date Created/Published: [1929]
Notes:
Site History. House Architecture: Griffin & Wynkoop, for Captain George Preston Blow, additions to 18th century brick house, the home of Thomas Nelson Jr., 1738-1739, after purchase by Blow in 1914. Landscape: Charles Freeman Gillette, from 1914. Associated Name: Adele Matthiessen (Mrs. George P.) Blow. Other: Also known as Nelson House. Today: Garden not extant, the house, without additions by Captain Blow, is a National Park Service site.
On slide (handwritten): 'Memory Garden, York Hall, Nelson House.'
Title, date, and subject information provided by Sam Watters, 2011.
Forms part of: Garden and historic house lecture series in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in Gardens for a Beautiful America / Sam Watters. New York: Acanthus Press, 2012. Plate 230.
Subjects:
Gardens--Virginia--Yorktown--1920-1930.
Servants' quarters--Virginia--Yorktown--1920-1930.
Lantern slides--Hand-colored--1920-1930.
Bookmark /2007686337/
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