At Weston Plantation, a late 18th-/early 19th-century restored plantation domestic complex in Hopewell, Virginia, archaeological testing identified intact foundations/features of long-gone, flanking dependencies that had been arranged in a typical, Georgian, symmetrical relationship to either side of the standing manor house. The Historic Hopewell Foundation commissioned reconstructions of the flanking dependencies (a kitchen and laundry, respectively) in locations that put them in the same alignment with the manor house as the original buildings, but with the reconstructions slightly further away from the manor house to either side than the original dependencies. In this way, the overall views of the complex would be basically indistinguishable from the original layout, and yet the archaeological remains of the original dependencies were avoided and preserved in--place. 

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Subject: Reconstructions in Proximity to Original Sites

I am looking for examples of historic site reconstructions that are positioned in proximity to the structure's original (excavated) sites. I am aware of the reconstructed Ft. Seminoe (in Wyoming) which was erected a short distance from the excavated foundations of the original fort. Does anyone know of other similar examples of this method of preservation and interpretation?

Thanks for the help.

Benjamin Pykles