For more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsburg has engaged in comprehensive study of early buildings, landscapes, and social history in the Chesapeake region. In The Chesapeake House: Architectural Investigation by Colonial Williamsburg, edited by Cary Carson and Carl Lounsbury, a team of historians, curators, and conservators draw on their far-reaching knowledge of historic structures in Virginia and Maryland to illuminate the formation, development, and spread of one of the hallmark building traditions in America architecture. The cover of The Chesapeake House features the dramatic center hallway at Wilton.
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Washington Post Home & Design Magazine | Sept 28, 2014
“Washingtonian Stephen M. Foster spent more than two years renewing Wilton, a 1763 plantation manor in Middlesex County, Va. He did not want to restore Wilton but “make the best of preserving it as it was.” Read full article here:
Newport Daily Press, Dec. 29, 2013. Wilton Restored to its Colonial Past Read Article
House and Home Magazine, February 2012, Wilton House [PDF] http://www.thehouseandhomemagazine.com/Articles/MarApr2012/WiltonHouse/tabid/499/Default.aspx
Southside Sentinel, Rappahannock Record: Windows on the Bay: Wilton, A Restoration Challenge
http://www.ssentinel.com/index.php/supplements/article/wilton_everywhere_you_look_speaks_of_time/
