Before there were the streets of Williamsburg, there was the Virginia House, an architectural and cultural form very different from all succeeding forms, yet which anticipated them in fundamental ways. At the heart of that earlier tradition lay what was perhaps the first house-type to emerge from English precedent on North American soil, the “Virginia Frame” house. How could thousands of such houses and the civilization they represent have once populated the whole Chesapeake region, and then disappeared almost without a trace? What can the Virginia House tell us about who we would become as Americans? Classroom and optional field trip. Register here.