Guild Study Program | Colonial Williamsburg, VA
January 15 - 18, 2010
Classes
Entrance Hall—George Wythe House
Peter Kendall, IGMA Fellow
Materials fee: $235
George Wythe was one of the most distinguished and influential Americans of our colonial era. He was a classical scholar and lawyer and had a public career that spanned 50 years. Wythe’s accomplishments included being a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a framer of our Constitution, and the first professor of law at an American college. Among his law students were Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall, a chief justice of our Supreme Court.
George Wythe’s house, built in the early 1750s, is a classic Georgian house of balanced architecture, with a wide center hall and two rooms on each side. George Washington used the house as his headquarters during the Battle of Yorktown.
The class project will be a corner of the entrance hall, the front wall containing the door and transom window and the right side wall having a recessed door leading to a parlor. The recess to the side door contains raised panels on the sides and top. Plexiglass will cover the other side wall and the front and top. Interior measurements are 11 3/4" wide x 14" deep x 12" high. Furniture projects from your earlier Williamsburg GSPs will fit into the hall for display.
Students will make the aged floor, front and side doors having raised panels, and some moldings. Students will learn how to rout rails and stiles, as well as the panels. On account of the limited class time and limited availability of power tools, the instructor will make some elements of the room and supply them. A scale version of the wallpaper, door hardware, and some moldings will also be supplied.
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