Public Records Office, 428 Duke of Gloucester Street, Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia

Significance: Construction of this small brick building was begun in 1747, shortly after the Capitol Building burned. The new structure was intended to safely house government records. The designer is not known, but the brickwork has many similarities to that at Carter's Grove Plantation. Its monumental brick doorway is one of a small, closely dated group of examples of this type. The building was purchased by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in 1937, and was restored in 1939.

Survey number: HABS VA-195

Building/structure dates: 1747 Initial Construction

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1937 - 1970

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