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Article: JEFFERSON AND PALLADIO LEFT IMPRINT ON VIRGINIA ARCHITECTURE.(LOCAL)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- January 25, 1999
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Byline: GEORGE TUCKER
THE CLASSICALLY inspired architecture that most people associate with Virginia, particularly its Ionic-pillared, temple-like Capitol in Richmond and Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Palladian villa in Albemarle County, has an ancestry extending two millennia back to the period of world history that Edgar Allan Poe characterized as ``the grandeur that was Rome.''
Even so, since the classically inspired elements did not become an integral part of the Old Dominion's aesthetic until almost a century after Jamestown was settled in 1607, it might be a good idea to briefly note what type of structures were erected during Virginia's first ...