Title:: Colonial Hotel Records 1913-1930

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Colonial Hotel Records, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
69.00
Creator:
Johnston, Mary A.Colonial Hotel Management arrangement
Abstract:
This collection contains reservation and information requests and carbon copy or rough draft replies about accommodations and meals at the Colonial Hotel in Williamsburg, Virginia. It also includes business and financial correspondence concerning the Colonial Hotel. Most replies unsigned, but Mrs. Mary A. Johnston was the manager during 1929 and 1930. There are miscellaneous cards, envelopes, brochures and notepaper.
Language:
The papers are in: English
Preferred citation:

Colonial Hotel Records, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains reservation and information requests and carbon copy or rough draft replies about accommodations and meals at the Colonial Hotel in Williamsburg, Virginia. It also includes business and financial correspondence concerning the Colonial Hotel. Most replies unsigned, but Mrs. Mary A. Johnston was the manager during 1929 and 1930. There are miscellaneous cards, envelopes, brochures and notepaper.

It includes a brochure from the New York Hippodrome for the week of 11/3/1913, original deed from P.F. and Maggie B. Conway to W.W. Robertson for property in Danville, VA, 5 issues of the Virginia Gazette and 2 issues of William and Mary Flat Hat.

Built in 1895, The Colonial Hotel, or Colonial Inn, was located where Chowning's Tavern was reconstructed. Williamsburg Restoration purchased it and renamed it "Williamsburg Inn." It operated under that name until the new Williamsburg Inn was built in 1933.

Biographical / historical:

Mary A. Johnson was manager of the Colonial Hotel, Williamsburg, Virginia. There may be additional information concerning this individual in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki

Acquisition information:
The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 11/15/2006.
Processing information:

Arranged and described by Anne T. Johnson.

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Correspondence
Deeds