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Detail of Mr. Meys Garden from "Charleston Garden Plats" by
Emma B. Richardson, Charleston Museum Leaflet no. 19. |
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.
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