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Galliani Collection

The Architectural Legacy of Thomas Jefferson

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The Architectural Legacy
of
Thomas Jefferson

 

“...Photographer Eduardo Galliani, has published a stunning folio of Jefferson architectural photographs (well worth getting, and framing for posterity). It includes the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond VA, the University of Virginia Rotunda, and two of Jefferson’s own homes, his country retreat in Bedford County VA, and Monticello, which he started building near Charlottesville when he was only 26.”

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Monticello

Home of Martha and Thomas Jefferson

UNESCO World Heritage Site

County of Albemarle, Virginia

​​Monticello is the masterpiece of Thomas Jefferson. The house, which Jefferson designed, was based on the neoclassical principles described in the books of the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.

The Rotunda

Jefferson's Academical Village

University of Virginia

UNESCO World Heritage Site

Charlottesville, Virginia

​​The Rotunda at the University of Virginia was designed by Thomas Jefferson as the architectural and academic heart of his “Academical Village.” The Rotunda served as the library, demonstrating Jefferson's belief that a university should have as its focus a collection of academic achievements.

Virginia State Capitol

 Richmond, Virginia

 

​The Capitol was conceived by Thomas Jefferson and Charles-Louis Clérisseau in France.“The design was modeled after the Maison Carée, an ancient Roman temple in Nimes, southern France.” It was completed in 1788

 

 
The Ruins of Barboursville
Barboursville Vineyards

Orange County, Virginia

 

Designed by Thomas Jefferson for his friend James Barbour, 19th Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia.The home was built from 1814 through 1822 and destroyed by accidental fire at Christmas, 1884.

 

 

 

 

Poplar Forest

Forest

Bedford County, Virginia

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Thomas Jefferson designed and built Poplar Forest as his own private retreat on a plantation his wife Martha inherited from her father. Jefferson began building the house in 1806 and finished it in 1809. Constructed of brick, it is octagonal in shape and has pedimented porticoes on low arcades at the north and south facades. The interior was rebuilt following a fire in 1845; thus, only the walls, chimneys, and columns are original.

Farmington Country Club

Charlottesville, Virginia

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Friend and fellow gardener James Divers asked Jefferson to design an addition to his house, and in 1802 Jefferson’s plan for an elongated, octagonal wing for the east side of the building was built.

The Jefferson addition featured a Tuscan portico and ‘bull’s-eye’ windows.The original floor-plan for the interior divided the space into two rooms of unequal size.

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