Detail of Mr. Meys Garden from "Charleston Garden Plats" by
Emma B. Richardson, Charleston Museum Leaflet no. 19.
Courtesy of The Charleston Museum, Charleston, South Carolina.
Arthur Shurcliff, in fact, was one of the earliest pioneers of the
development of the Colonial Revival style and his study of old maps
and surviving examples of authentic colonial gardens meant that Williamsburg's
gardens would reflect the scale, organization, and geometric playfulness
of mid- to late-Georgian gardens of colonial America.
Arthur Shurcliff traveled throughout the American South and England gathering the ideas that would
lead him to create in Williamsburg a collection of gardens cited as one of the world’s ten most
important gardening sites.
Historic Triangle