When you have a favorite toy that breaks, you fix it and make it almost
as good as new.
Buildings and castles and cities don’t break. But sometimes they wear
out and need fixing, too.
When we make a building or a castle or a city look the way it did when
it was first built, we call it a restoration.
Read the next few pages, and you will find out about some famous
restorations.
PILLORY AND STOCKS
The Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, Virginia, has been made to look just as it did in colonial days. The people are dressed in colonial costumes. > A visitor to Williamsburg, Virginia, tries out…
A ROOF WITH A HOLE IN THE MIDDLE
The Pantheon in Rome, Italy, was built thousands of years ago and looks like this today. Whoever heard of building a building with a big hole in the middle of the roof? No, the hole was not a…
WHAT A CASTLE REALLY WAS LIKE
All kinds of king\’s and all kinds of lords built all kinds of castles in Europe long before the United States became a country. Many castles are no more. Others have fallen apart and stand in…
A SHIP SAVED BY A POEM
The Constitution, a famous sailing ship, looks like this today. “Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunder shook the mighty deep, And there should be her…
