Last week Mr. E’ville and I spent a few days in historic Williamsburg, Virginia where there were many, MANY, holiday adorned doors just screaming to be photographed for Norm’s Thursday Door challenge. I happily obliged as we strolled the Duke of Gloucester and Queen Streets.
We saw many storehouse doors attached to various buildings.
The Palmer House I found particularly interesting. Look at the red and green apples tucked within the architectural niches of the brick…VERY festive for the holidays, yes? And the smallish double side doors also wearing a wreath caught my eye while walking past. Housing for ye olde John Deere, perhaps?
There are so many great single, double, and swinging doors I couldn’t post them all here but offer up a few of my favorites. See you door lovers in 2017 and I look forward to visiting you all at Norm’s Thursday Doors!!!
Thoughts Of An E'ville Woman 
Apples in the architecture! 😮 I’ve never seen anything like that!
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Yes, isn’t it wonderful?
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Thoughtful and nourishing. Most excellent!
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Handsome, historic doors in many shapes and colors – like a red carpet walk for doors. Love them. 🙂
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Thank you kindly for your thoughts. And there were SO MANY more doors….
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Great finds! The columns made that door exceptional.
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Phenomenal post. Thank you for sharing
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Thank you for visiting and reading my post.
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It is a pleasure
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I have not been here Over the holidays and so I really loved this – I think this post is a really great snapshot of this historic town/ wonderful photo quality too!
Happy new year
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Thanks so much for visiting. It certainly gets one in the Christmas spirit with all the dressings and garlands. I wonder when they actually put it all up…my guess is right after Thanksgiving. Happy New Year to you, too.
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Well I think they start right after Halloween- so it is ready by thanksgiving – not sure – but we were in Rochester NY and saw them working in early November setting out manikins with. Xmas sweaters.
And last year – I think it was November 1st – I caught a photo of a mall worker carrying big garland around his neck – and it is so funny how right after October the Christmas decor feels fresh and new- and then right about this time – and by January 2nd- as much as I love it – I’m done.
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What great doors from a historic place I’d love to visit. My favorite is the green door at the very top.
The apples in the wall are very interesting!
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I visited Williamsburg many years ago but have almost no memory of the place… and certainly no memory at all of those wonderful doors (what did I know back then?). Thank you for your pictures – the doors are quite lovely and I love their simple holiday adornments.
I wonder if those apples place among the bricks are Christmas gifts for the birds?
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I thought the same regarding the apples! Great minds….
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Lovely! I really like the yellow doors with wreaths and the green cellar doors 🙂
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I do too, glad you found them amongst the others.
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You hit the motherlode with a lot of variation and styles in decorating.
The Palmer House is really interesting. I’ve never heard of a building having little cutouts like that and I noticed that a few other places included apples in their decorations – something I’ve never noticed here.
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The fruit wreath is very popular here Joanne. There are wreath making workshops offered here at Monticello (and other venues like Williamsburg) where you learn to make these traditional wreaths to bring home to your own doors. They are striking up close and from afar.
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Fantastic set of doors. :>)
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Thank you much for visiting and commenting.
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I’ve never been there, but hope to go one day. In the meantime, thanks for the great door tour. So many great doors and, in this season, great decorations as well.
janet
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It is a pretty, historical town. If you get the opportunity to visit I recommend the Williamsburg Lodge. It is located just off Market Square and has a shuttle to take you to wherever you need to go. There is also the nearby Williamsburg Inn that would be a nice place to stay while in town.
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I’ve always heard wonderful things about this place. Hopefully I’ll get down there one day myself.
You certainly hit the motherlode! Some real beauties in this collection. The Bowden-Armistead House was my favourite because: columns 🙂
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Thanks, Norm. Yes, she is a beauty! The double columns sets that door apart from the others. Sadly, the afternoon shade was setting in when I returned to take that photo yet that door was the very first I found that day.
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