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Title: Historic Virginia homes and churches
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Lancaster, Robert A. (Robert Alexander), 1862-1940
Subjects: Historic buildings Church buildings
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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umns, and when it was found thatVirginia stone was unsuitable for this purpose a numberof beautif idly chiselled white marble capitals were importedfrom Italy; but most of the work was done on the groundby Jeffersons own workmen, trained by him. In August, 1820, he wrote to John Adams, from INIonti-cello: Our LTniversity, four miles distant, gives me fre-quent exercise, as I direct its architecture. Professor Herbert B. Adams, in his sketch of the imi-versity, alread_v quoted, writes as follows: A visitor pacing slowly through these monastic colon-nades extending along two sides of the great quadranglecampus of the University of Virginia will receive a strangevarietj of impressions from the extraordinary architecturalcombinations which greet his wandering eyes. The arcadesthemselves from which open directly the single-chamberedrooms of the students, remind one of cloistered walks insome ancient monastery. These student-rooms are likemonkish-cells. But wonderful facades are those which
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PIEDMONT AND TIIK SOUTH SIDE 409 front the professors houses, oi- ))avih()ns. Tliey rej)ro(liKechissie styles of areliitecture. The shadows of remote an-tiquity are cast upon those heautiful grassy hiwns, whiehfoini the campus. From Jeffersons drawings we learn what is wellnigh forgotten, that these varying types of classical arelii-tecture were copied from well-known Roman huildingspictured by Palladio in his great work on areliitecture.There, in the theatre of ^Marcellus, dwells the household ofProfessor ^Nlinor. Yonder are reminders of the baths ofDiocletian, the baths of Caracalla and the temple of For-tuna Virillis. And there at the upper or nortiiern end ofthe quadrangle, stands the Roman Pantheon, the templeof all the gods, reduced to one-third of its original size,but still majestic and imposing. This building with itsRotunda, upon which Jefferson spent almost as much painsas )\Iichael Angelo did ujion the dome of St. Peters, isused for the library and for various lecture hall

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