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Photograph of Charles Follen McKim, William Mead, and Stanford White, ca. 1905
McKim, Mead & White architectural records and drawings, Avery Library, Columbia University

Another possibility is to return structures to their original appearance based on historic evidence. Jefferson’s design for Pavilion X, inspired by the Theater of Marcellus and the Temple of Nerva Trajan in Rome, featured a parapet crowning the…

Photograph of the “Great Fire” of the Rotunda, 1895
Holsinger’s Studio
University Archives (RG-30/1/3.951)

Photograph of the boiler house behind Cabell Hall, ca. 1898-1920
University Archives (RG-30/1/3.813)

Photograph of the Confederate Monument in the University Cemetery, 2009
Courtesy of Garth Anderson, photographer

Photograph of the oldest part of the University Cemetery, 2009
Courtesy of Garth Anderson, photographer

Photograph of the University Chapel under construction, 1889
J.T. Wampler, photographer
U.Va. Visual History Collection

Photograph of Varsity Hall in use as a fraternity house, 1901
B. Altman & Company
U.Va. Visual History Collection

Plan for lecture halls at the University of Virginia, 1840
John Hartwell Cocke
Ink on paper, 12 ½ x 10 in.
(MSS 11996)

Plan for proposed Peabody Hall Quadrangle, ca. 1928
Edmund S. Campbell
Ink and crayon on paper, 24 ¾ x 36 ¾ in.
University Archives (RG-31/1/2:2.981)

Plan of Clark Hall, ca. 1930
Architectural Commission, architects; sketch by Walter Dabney Blair
10 x 11 3/4 in.
(MSS 6846-p)

Plan of the ceiling light of the Rotunda dome, 1896
McKim, Mead & White, architects; signed by Haase, draftsman
Blueprint, 16 ½ x 14 in.
University Archives (RG-31/1/2:2.872)