Main entry:

Vaughan, Joseph Lee.

Title & Author:

Thomas Jefferson's Rotunda restored, 1973-76 : a pictorial review with commentary / Joseph Lee Vaughan and Omer Allan Gianniny, Jr. ; with a foreword by Frederick Doveton Nichols.

Publication:

Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1981.

Description:

xxi, 170 pages : illustrations (Some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-165) and index.
Foreword / Frederick D. Nichols -- Background: Jefferson's concept of the Rotunda ; The annex and other buildings added before 1895 ; The great fire of 1895 ; Plans for restoring the university ; Stanford White's design for the Rotunda ; Whose Rotunda's - Jefferson's or White's? ; Use of the Stanford White Rotunda ; Planning for restoration ; Technical questions in restoration ; Controversies aroused by restoration. -- The work of restoration and adaptation: Preparation ; Construction ; Dedication.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Here is an illustrated architectural history, written in layman's terms, of the famed Rotunda at the University of Virginia. Thomas Jefferson designed and built the Rotunda to be the heart -- the library -- of his beloved university. Jefferson, a classicist, based his design of the Rotunda on the Greek Pantheon. The book is divided into two parts. Part one traces the Rotunda through the past two centuries. Key events are highlighted, and Jefferson's drawings and plans for the Rotunda. Part two describes in detail the restoration work from 1973 to 1976. Over fifty color photographs depict the stages of restoration from preparation to construction to completion and dedication. All the problems of adaptation and restoration management are raised in the context of the different opinions of architects and master craftsmen in their interpretation of Jefferson's plans and designs. -- From publisher's description.

ISBN:

0813908884
9780813908885

Subject:

University of Virginia Rotunda (Charlottesville, Va.) Conservation and restoration.
University of Virginia Buildings Conservation and restoration.
University of Virginia Buildings History.
University of Virginia History.
University of Virginia. Rotunda Conservation et restauration.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia Rotunda (Charlottesville, Va.)
Architecture Conservation and restoration
Buildings
Conservation and restoration

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Gianniny, Omer Allan.
Nichols, Frederick D., writer of foreword.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 43626
Call No.: PO4769; ID:89-B3338
Status: Available