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
The Lawn
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The Lawn, a part of Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village, is a large, terraced grassy court at the historic center of Jefferson's academic community at the University of Virginia. The Lawn and its su
The Rotunda (University of Virginia)
…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…
The Lawn in October 2006
Steel engraving, 1831
1856 engraving of the Lawn, looking north
University of Virginia Rotunda Annex (1895)