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The courthouse is located facing Market Square with Duke of Gloucester Street running directly behind it. The property was acquired by Colonial Williamsburg in 1928, and was added to the National Register as a contributing property to the Williamsburg Historic District on October 15, 1966.
Colonial Williamsburg is a living-history museum and private foundation presenting a part of the historic district in the city of Williamsburg, Virginia.Its 301-acre (122 ha) historic area includes several hundred restored or recreated buildings from the 18th century, when the city was the capital of the Colony of Virginia; 17th-century, 19th-century, and Colonial Revival structures; and more ...
Duke of Gloucester: Dukedom of Gloucester (1st creation) extinct, 1397: King Henry IV 1367–1413: John Beaufort 1373–1410 1st Earl of Somerset: Joan Beaufort c. 1379 –1440: Duke of Gloucester (2nd creation), 1414: Humphrey of Lancaster 1390–1447 Duke of Gloucester: John Beaufort 1404–1444 Duke of Somerset: Cecily Neville 1415–1495
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester with their family, 1980. Tim Graham - Getty Images Since her husband is the grandson of King George V and Queen Mary, their children use the last name Windsor.
At the time the main street was rechristened after the Duke of Gloucester, it was a simple horse path that veered through a set of swampy ravines and was obstructed at one point by houses and an oven. On April 27, 1704, Francis Nicholson asked the House of Burgesses to allow purchase of four old homes on the site so they could be demolished.
At 78, The Duke of Gloucester is well into his 4th decade as a full-time working royal. But like his first cousin, the late Queen Elizabeth, he wasn't born as high in the line of succession as he ...
The Ludwell–Paradise House, often also called the Paradise House, [note 1] is a historic home along Duke of Gloucester Street and part of Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia. The home was built in 1752–1753 for Philip Ludwell III .
Nearly two decades later, on July 22, 1816, Mary married her first cousin, Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh. (He was the son of King George III's brother.) He died in ...