Structure of Justice
Carl Lounsbury
Who is Carl Lounsbury?
Carl Lounsbury received his Ph.D. in American Studies at George Washington
University in 1983.
Since 1982 Lounsbury has been a member of the Architectural Research
Department at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (CWF).
He is currently an architectural historian for CWF, coordinator of the National
Institute of American History and Democracy at CWF, and lecturer in the
Department of History at the College of William and Mary.
Lounsbury's professional career has also included consultant in design and
architectural research for museums, historical societies, and state agencies.
He has taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Mary
Washington, and the University of Virginia.
Scratch Bibliography
Lounsbury, Carl. The Architecture of Southport. Southport, N.C: Southport Historical Society, 1979.
Lounsbury, Carl. Alamance County Architectural Heritage. Graham, N.C.: Alamance County Historical Properties Commission, 1980.
Lounsbury, Carl. "Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A Study of the Building Process." Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture. Camille Wells, ed. Annapolis,
MD: Vernacular Architecture Forum, 1982. Pp. 117-122.
Lounsbury, Carl. "The Building Process in Antebellum North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review 60 (1983): 431-456.
Lounsbury, Carl. "Vernacular Construction in the Survey." Historic America: Buildings, Structures, and Sites. C. Ford Peatross, ed. Washington, DC: Library of
Congress, 1983.
Lounsbury, Carl. "'An Elegant and Commodious Building': William Buckland and the Design of the Prince William County Courthouse." Journal of the Society of
Architectural Historians 46, No. 3 (September, 1987): 228-240.
Lounsbury, Carl. "The Structure of Justice: The Courthouses of Colonial Virginia." Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, III. Thomas Carter and Bernard L.
Herman, eds. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1989. Pp. 214-226.
Bishir, Catherine W., Charlotte V. Brown, Carl R. Lounsbury, and Ernest H. Wood, III. Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of
Building. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
Lounsbury, Carl R. "Beaux-Arts Ideals and Colonial Reality: The Reconstruction of Williamsburg's Capitol, 1928-1934." Journal of the Society of Architectural
Historians 49, No. 4 (December, 1990): 373-389.
Lounsbury, Carl R., ed. An Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Lounsbury, Carl. "The Dynamics of Architectural Design in Eighteenth-Century Charleston and the Lowcountry." Exploring Everyday Landscapes: Perspectives in
Vernacular Architecture, VII. Annmarie Adams and Sally McMurry, eds., Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. Pp. 58-74
Lounsbury, Carl R., ed. An Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape. 1994. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1999.
Lounsbury, Carl R. From Statehouse to Courthouse: An Architectural History of South Carolina's Colonial Capitol and Charleston County Courthouse. Columbia, SC:
University of South Carolina Press, 2000.
Lounsbury, Carl. "Anglican Church Design in the Chesapeake: English Inheritances and Regional Interpretations." In Constructing Image, Identity, and Place:
Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Volume IX, eds. Alison K. Hoagland and Kenneth A. Breisch. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. Pp. 2238.
Lounsbury, Carl. The Courthouses of Early Virginia: An Architectural History. Colonial Williamsburg Studies in Chesapeake History and Culture. Charlottesville, VA:
University of Virginia Press, 2005.
Lounsbury, Carl. "God is in the Details: The Transformation of Ecclesiastical Architecture in Early Nineteenth-Century America." Perspectives in Vernacular
Architecture 13, no. 1 (2006): 1-21.
Graham, Willie, Carter L. Hudgins, Carl R. Lounsbury, Fraser D. Neiman, and James P. Whittenburg. "Adaptation and Innovation: Archaeological and Architectural
Perspectives on the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake." William and Mary Quarterly 3rd series 64, no. 3 (July 2007): 451-522.
Lounsbury, Carl R. "Christ Church, Savannah: Loopholes in Metropolitan Design on the Frontier." In Material Culture in Anglo-America: Regional Identity and
Urbanity in the Tidewater, Lowcountry, and Caribbean, ed., David S. Shields, 58-73. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 2009.
Lounsbury, Carl R. "Drawing Upon the Past." Colonial Williamsburg 32, no. 1 (Winter 2010): 30-34.
Lounsbury, Carl R. Essays in Early American Architectural History: A View from the Chesapeake. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Lounsbury, Carl R. "Architecture and Cultural History." Dan Hicks and Mary C. Beaudry, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2010.484-501.
Goochland County Court House
Hanover County Courthouse
Town Hall,
Buckingham shire,
1682
Virginia Capitol ca. 1737
Hanover Court House
Amelia County, 1767
Chief Magistrate’s Chair, Chowan County,
NC