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The Lawn, a part of Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village, is a large, terraced grassy court at the historic center of Jefferson's academic community at the University of Virginia. The Lawn and its surrounding buildings, designed by Jefferson, demonstrate Jefferson's mastery of Palladian and Neoclassical architecture , and the site has been ...
The Rotunda is a building located on The Lawn on the original grounds of the University of Virginia. Thomas Jefferson designed it to represent the "authority of nature and power of reason" and modeled it after the Pantheon in Rome. Construction began in 1822 and was completed shortly after Jefferson's death in 1826.
Father of the University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson was the first and only President of the United States to found an institution of higher learning. On January 18, 1800, Thomas Jefferson, then the Vice President of the United States, alluded to plans for a new college in a letter written to British scientist Joseph Priestley: "We wish to establish in the upper country of Virginia, and more ...
The statue of Thomas Jefferson was dedicated on June 15, 1910 in front of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia. Designed by sculptor Moses Ezekiel in 1897, and cast in 1898, the statue portrays Jefferson standing on top of a replicate of the Liberty Bell, surrounded by four winged allegorical figures--at the front is Liberty, at the back is Justice, on Jefferson's proper right is Human ...
A statue of Thomas Jefferson stands in front of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., on May 16, 2020.
Thomas Jefferson, the university's founder, by Charles Willson Peale (1791) The Rotunda, as pictured from the South Lawn. In 1802, while serving as president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson wrote to artist Charles Willson Peale that his concept of the new university would be "on the most extensive and liberal scale that our circumstances would call for and our faculties meet," and it ...
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The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society (commonly known as "Jeff Soc") is the oldest continuously existing collegiate debating society in North America.The society was founded on July 14, 1825, in Room Seven, West Lawn at the University of Virginia.