Design History


In 1978, Jonathan Poston along with Paul Buchanan and Jim Waite of Colonial Williamsburg measured the buildings at Rosegill and did a series of conceptual drawings of how the houses may have been changed over the years.

These drawings are in the Vertical Files, Rockefeller Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation under Lecture on Rosegill, Jonathan Poston 1979

 

1716-20
Gable Roof, Stone Footings

John Wormeley (1689-1727)
replaced earlier buildings

 

 

[?] 1720-26
Stone Footings

John Wormeley [d. ?] 1726 then occupied by his widow
Elizabeth Robinson [Ring?] Wormeley until her death in 1761

 

 

1761-1764
Mansard Roof

Ralph Wormeley IV (1715-1790)
occupied on [his?] [widow?] until 1973

 

 

1793-1801

Ralph Wormeley V (1744-1806)

 

 

1850
Two Story, Gable Roof

John Bailey
(purchased 1850)

 

 

195_

Sidney Shannon
(purchased 1944)

Roof burned July 1977, rebuilt December 1977

 

 

This foundation plan is very difficult to read, and may in fact be upside down here.

 

 

1806

Conceptual drawing of building locations