Located in Yorktown, VA, the Poor Potter site serves as both a shelter structure preserving the ruins from an early 18th Century pottery "factory" and as a backdrop for the Civil War reenactments that commonly occur in the area. The open-air shelter, referencing Civil War era Virginia tobacco barns, uses natural light as a primary means of lighting the partially excavated foundation ruins on display at the site. The ruins that continue outside the structure are documented and remain in the best possible hands; interred in the ground upon which they were built.