Fairfield's Rebirth in 3-D

Digs & Discoveries March/April 2019

(Virginia Department of Historic Resources)
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3-D printed model of Fairfield(Courtesy Fairfield Foundation)

At the time it was completed in 1694, southeastern Virginia’s Fairfield Plantation was one of the largest and most architecturally innovative houses in the American colonies. Its distinctive features, including triple diamond-stack chimneys, hipped roof, and large, rectangular sash windows, made Fairfield “the most sophisticated classical house built in British North America to that date,” according to historian Cary Carson o

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