Most guest come to stay at the
Fife & Drum Inn due to
our proximity to Historic Williamsburg,
Jamestown, and Yorktown.
More and more we have visits from guest related to the
College of William and Mary.
The Inn is located one block from
the historic heart of the college, Wren Yard. The William and Mary
admissions office, which serves visiting high school students with entry
requirements and home base for campus tours is a short 3 block walk down
Richmond Road.
Standing at the west end of
Colonial Williamsburg's historic Duke of Gloucester Street, the
Wren Yard
features the oldest academic structure in continuous use in the nation;
the Wren Building provided
classrooms, library, chapel, and a dining hall for many early American
leaders, including future Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and
John Tyler. The structure is believed to have been designed by Sir
Christopher Wren, architect of St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
For the rising senior the College of William and Mary
has a number of programs and opportunities available to experience what
it might be like to attend the college. You can take a
tour of the William and
Mary campus, spend
the night,
attend a
class, and
meet
current William and Mary students.
Parents are welcome to attend the tour. You need to plan
on about 2 hours, but as the campus is fairly large and spread out you
can easily spend more time, on your own, checking it out.
Not only was Thomas Jefferson
(class of 1762) a student at the College of William and Mary but
he
founded the College's Department of Modern Languages in
1779, making it the first and
oldest such department in the nation.
It has been our pleasure at the Inn to have parents of
kids seeking and gaining admission to the college stay with us through
the 4 years their children are in the undergraduate program and then
plan a stay with other family members for the joyous May graduation
ceremonies.
