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Lee sculpture covered in black tarpaulin following the Unite the Right rally of 2017. The Robert E. Lee Monument was an outdoor bronze equestrian statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and his horse Traveller located in Charlottesville, Virginia's Market Street Park (formerly Emancipation Park, and before that Lee Park) in the Charlottesville and Albemarle County Courthouse Historic District.
The Fralin Museum of Art is an art museum at the University of Virginia. Before 2012, it was known as the University of Virginia Art Museum. It occupies the historic Thomas H. Bayly Building on Rugby Road in Charlottesville, Virginia, a short distance from the Rotunda. The museum's permanent collection consists of nearly 14,000 works; African ...
Charlottesville is located in central Virginia along the Rivanna River —a tributary of the James —just west of the Southwest Mountains, a range which parallels the Blue Ridge about 20 miles (32 km) to the west. Charlottesville is 99 miles (159 km) from Washington, D.C., and 72 miles (116 km) from Richmond.
Market Street Park, then Lee Park, in 2009. Location. Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. Coordinates. 38°01′54″N 78°28′50″W / 38.0318°N 78.4806°W / 38.0318; -78.4806. Market Street Park, known as Lee Park until 2017, and as Emancipation Park from June 2017 to July 2018, is a public park in Charlottesville, Virginia. [1][2]
Swannanoa (mansion) Swannanoa is an Italian Renaissance Revival villa built in 1912 by millionaire and philanthropist James H. Dooley (1841–1922) above Rockfish Gap on the border of northern Nelson County and Augusta County, Virginia, in the US. It is partially based on buildings in the Villa Medici, Rome. Rockfish Gap is the southern end of ...
Leander McCormick Observatory. The Leander McCormick Observatory is one of the astronomical observatories operated by the Department of Astronomy [3] of the University of Virginia, and is situated just outside Charlottesville, Virginia (US) in Albemarle County on the summit of Mount Jefferson (also known as Observatory Hill).
Court Square Park (formerly Jackson Park and Justice Park) is a public park in Charlottesville, Virginia. Court Square Park is 0.4 acres bounded by Jefferson Street, Fourth Street N.E., High Street and the Albemarle County Court Building. [1] Paul Goodloe McIntire established the park in 1919 by donating the land to the city of Charlottesville.
Highland, formerly Ash Lawn–Highland, located near Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, and adjacent to Thomas Jefferson 's Monticello, was the estate of James Monroe, a Founding Father and fifth president of the United States. Purchased in 1793, Monroe and his family permanently settled on the property in 1799 and lived at Highland for ...