Latrobe's site plan and elevation
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- Author: Kimball
- Title: Thomas Jefferson Architect
- Date: 1916
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- Author: Nichols
- Title: Jefferson's Architectural Drawings
- Date: 1984
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- Author: Lasala
- Title: Jefferson's Designs for the University of Virginia
- Date: 1992
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- Author: B.H.Latrobe
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- AA will be the least expensive pavilions because the lower/ story will be coverd by the one story high Dormitories (which I suppose will also be study rooms) and might be built first. BB/ pavilions having the same dimensions & general Mass/ but exhibiting different styles or orders of Architections./ CC d'o. DD d'o. Center building which ought/ to exhibit in Mass and details as perfect a specimen of good/ Architectural taste as can be devised. I should propose/ below, a couple or 4 rooms for Janitors or Tutors/ above, a room, [sketch] for Chemical or other lectures,/ above a circular lecture room under the dome;/ The pavilions to be, as proposed, habitations of Professors/and lecture rooms. But, if Professors are married, will/ they not require more than 2 rooms each, or a kitchen./ I have exhibited such and arrangement.