Bassett Hall

An 18th-century white frame house on 585 wooded acres at the eastern edge of the historic area, and the Williamsburg home of John D. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller through the 1930s and 1940s — the base from which the entire restoration was directed.

It is presented as the Rockefellers left it, which makes it the odd one out here: a 1930s interior rather than a 1770s one, full of the American folk art Abby collected and largely responsible for that genre being taken seriously at all. Chintz, hooked rugs, weathervanes and portraits by untrained painters, arranged with money but not much grandeur.

Worth it if you have already done the colonial buildings and want the story of how the museum itself came to exist. The woodland trail behind the house is open and pleasant.