Peyton Randolph House - The Complete Home Tour of a Founding Father
Story Description:
The Peyton Randolph House in Colonial Williamsburg is one of the city's oldest surviving structures from the early 18th century. It was home to an often forgotten yet highly prominent founding father who lived here from childhood until his death, less than a year before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
An important figure in shaping the framework for America’s independence, his political career was both extensive and vital to the birth of our nation’s freedoms and liberties.
This documentary explores both the interior rooms and exterior outbuildings of the property, offering a complete tour of the Peyton Randolph House in Colonial Williamsburg.
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The documentary vividly showcases every room in the house and every outbuilding in the backyard that is open to the public today.
This includes:
The Servants' Quarters, Laundry, Kitchen, Covered Way, Mrs. Randolph's Closet, Parlor, West Passage, Library, Peyton's Childhood Bedroom, Upstairs Parlor, Oakbed Chamber, Center Passage, Bed Chamber Closet, The Randolph's Bed Chamber, Middle Landing, Staircase, Front Entryway, Dining Room, Lumberhouse, Dairy, Smokehouse, Big Storehouse, Granary, Little Storehouse, Chicken Coop, Vegetable Garden, and the home's Well.
This narrated home tour highlights original architectural features and artifacts while sharing stories about the distinguished guests who once stayed in the Peyton Randolph House.
It also offers a closer look at the spaces where twenty seven enslaved people of the household carried out the exhausting daily labor required to meet the constant demands of the Randolph family and their home.