Basset+Hall.+by+Allie

**Bassett Hall,** **a two-story, 18th-century, white frame farmhouse. This was the home of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his wife Abby Aldrich Rockefeller.** **//__ Photo Gallery __//** coming soon.
 * //__ Bassett Hall __//  **
 * Nestled on 585 acres of lawn, garden, and woodlands of Williamsburg it still stands, though it was built between 1753 and 1766 by Philip Johnson **
 * Basset Hall, Purchased by Burwell Bassett around 1800 was a shelter for many, including union cavalryman George Armstrong Custer, guest in the house during the Civil War. **
 * Completed two-year renovation in 2002 **
 * Bassett Hall remained in the Rockefeller family until 1979, when it became the property of the Colonial Williamsburg. A two-year renovation of the Basset Hall was completed in December 2002, and the home reopened to the public. Unlike the rest of the Historic Area, where guests travel back to the 18th century, Bassett Hall appears as it did in the 1930s and 1940s, in the early days of the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg, when the Rockefellers made it their home. **
 * Philip Johnson is believed to have built the 18th-century house sometime between 1753 and 1766. **