McCormick Observatory
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The Leander McCormick Observatory is one of the astronomical observatories operated by the Department of Astronomy of the University of Virginia, and is situated just outside Charlottesville, Virginia
Leander McCormick Observatory at night
Leander McCormick Observatory in 1890
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
The Rotunda
1819 draft of the Rotunda
The Great Rotunda Fire in 1895
Renovation underway on the Rotunda in 2011, with the Thomas Jefferson statue in the foreground