The James Semple House is a historic house on Francis Street in Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia. Built about 1770, it is a prominent early...

James Semple (January 5, 1798 – December 20, 1866) was an American attorney and politician. He was Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, Attorney...

Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson (née Kennedy; October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian-born Pentecostal...

Nelson House and Somerwell House (see photo), survive from the pre-Revolutionary period. The old court house, several small shops, the Nelson House, and...

James Semple House John Crump House Ludwell–Paradise House Matthew Whaley School Nicolson Store Palmer House Peyton Randolph House President's House Raleigh...

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was their fourth child and second daughter. In February 1839, Semple married James A. Semple at the age of 17. The Women's History Blog characterized their...

Rockefeller Sr. and schoolteacher Laura Celestia "Cettie" Spelman, at a friend's house in Providence. Their long courtship is documented in her engagement books...

Metropolitan Police officer who was murdered James Semple (1798–1866), United States Senator from Illinois Letitia Semple (1821–1907), United States society patron...

Confederate captain who served with General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House near the end of the Civil War. Partly disabled by a war wound, Goodwin became...

Williamsburg, Virginia, after studying under his uncle. He became a member of the House of Burgesses in 1754 and helped oversee defense expenditures during the...

ownership of the house, then known as the Paradise House, passed to James Lee by 1818. By 1854, Parks Slater was listed as responsible for the house in right...

James Semple Kerr AM (6 July 1932 – 15 October 2014) was an architectural historian and heritage practitioner in Australia, who was prominent in the drafting...

as the courts and even the House of Burgesses. The earlier settlements were along the major waterways, such as the James River and the York River. The...

soap, etc. Some houses are open to tourists, including the Peyton Randolph House, the Geddy House, the Wythe House, and the Everard House, as are such public...

(played by a young Jack Lord), a fictional Virginia planter elected to the House of Burgesses. While it was filmed almost entirely in and around the Colonial...

cities of Williamsburg, Newport News, Hampton, and Poquoson, as well as James City County, and shares a border along the York River with Gloucester County...

located on the Virginia Peninsula, bounded by the York River on the north and James River on the south. The three points that form the triangle are Jamestown...

Capitol at Williamsburg, Virginia housed both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, the Governor's Council and the House of Burgesses of the colony of...

(300 ha) plantation located on the north shore of the James River in the Grove Community of southeastern James City County in the Virginia Peninsula area of the...

The Geddy House, also known as the James Geddy House, was built by James Geddy Jr. ca. 1762. One of the oldest houses in Virginia and in Williamsburg...

Peninsula, the area that became Williamsburg was some distance from both the James River and the York River, and the ground's elevation gradually decreased...

for legislators after several Royal Governors officially dissolved the House of Burgesses, the elected legislative body, when their actions did not suit...

minister, Parson Barrett. He died after a couple of years, and she married Mr. Semple, who was later judge of the General Court. Rachel Warrington died in about...

moved to Richmond in 1780, and with it the governor's residence. The main house burned down in 1781, though the outbuildings survived for some time after...

structures, Brafferton (built in 1723 as an Indian school) and the President's House (completed in 1733). It's architecture is considered Georgian,[dubious –...

2683; -76.6933 (James Semple House) Williamsburg (independent city) House likely designed by Thomas Jefferson; a relative of the Semples, President John...

Matthew and James then sold it to Dudley Digges Jr. on November 14th, 1763. The house was built in the Cape Cod style in 1760. In 1763-1765, the house was rented...

January 23, 2007. "Wythe House". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved April 20, 2008. James Dillon (October 9, 1974)...

(one of only 31 in the U.S.), it is also popular with tourists due to the James River and York River ends of the parkway. For most roads it crosses it does...