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