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[Houses and a church (Buildings Erected or Proposed to be Built in Virginia"). Basement and principle story floor plan]" – Antique Photo Print

[Houses and a church (Buildings Erected or Proposed to be Built in Virginia"). Basement and principle story floor plan]", [between 1795 and 1799] — historic drawing
[Houses and a church (Buildings Erected or Proposed to be Built in Virginia"). Basement and principle story floor plan]", [between 1795 and 1799]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [Houses and a church (Buildings Erected or Proposed to be Built in Virginia"). Basement and principle story floor plan]", a historic drawing rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few plans of this period show how a household was organized as clearly as this one does. Its inscriptions name a school room, a housekeeper's room, a wine cellar, and a larder, which together reveal how a prosperous Virginia family's daily work was divided between floors. The drawing is part of the Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive and belongs to a group of designs for buildings erected or proposed in Virginia in the late 1790s. Latrobe, a English-trained architect who settled in the United States, used such plans to show clients how rooms connected and how service spaces stayed apart from the main living areas.

Created / published[between 1795 and 1799]
Medium1 drawing : ink, watercolor, and wash on paper.
GenreVA. Reference copy available in LOT 4249. Forms part of: Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress)."
SubjectsInscriptions on recto: Plan of the Ground or Principal Story" -- "Plan of the Basement Story" -- "School-room." -- "House keepers-room" -- "Wine Cellar" -- "Larder." John Harvie House
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,208 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-114923

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