Reading Room, Jefferson Library (Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies)
Reading Room detail, with a replica of Jefferson's revolving bookstand on the table and replica chairs in the background. And a piano in the reading room!
Open stacks in the Jefferson Library Reading Room
Roosevelt Cottage, Kenwood (International Center for Jefferson Studies) ... this is one of the apartments where the fellows who come to do research at the library get to live! It was built for FDR (but no, he was not doing research at the library)
Dome Room, Monticello
Dome oculus, Monticello
Dome Room Window, Monticello
North Terrace, Monticello. I forget what the object is.
West Front, Monticello
South Pavilion, Monticello (Jefferson's first home on the site, where he lived while the house was being constructed)
Northwest Corner, Monticello
Huge tulip poplar stump right next to Monticello, removed a couple days before I was there due to the structural problem (better than 50% hollow)
From the stump, looking west at the gardens
Northeast Corner, Monticello
Black-eyed Susans, Monticello
Great Clock and Compass Rose, Northeast Portico, Monticello
View South from Mulberry Row, Monticello
Mulberry Row, with slave cabin foundation in foreground, Monticello
Garden Pavilion, Monticello
Gardens, Monticello, with Mount Alto in the background
South Front, Rotunda, University of Virginia
One of the many statues of Thomas Jefferson, University of Virginia
Number 55, West Range.These little rooms along the Lawn are the original student dormitories, and are still used. No bathrooms, one window in the back.
Interior View, student Lawn room
Number 31, West Range. This was Woodrow Wilson's room when he studied at the UVa law school, 1879-1881
West Range, looking toward the Rotunda
Pavilion X, East Range. The Pavilions were originally faculty housing; administrators live in most of them now
Colonnade, with the Rotunda to the east
Pavilions III and V, West Range
The Lawn, looking South from the Rotunda, University of Virginia
Pavilion I, West Range, from the Rotunda Terrace
Rotunda Portico, University of Virginia
Pavilion II, East Range
Lawn Colonnade, University of Virginia
Pavilion VIII, East Range
Serpentine Wall, behind the Lawn, University of Virginia
Student rocking chair, Lawn Colonnade
Weird reflection, Pavilion window
Pavilion VII, West Range
Pavilion V, West Range
Walkway beneath Rotunda, University of Virginia
Courtyard behind the Rotunda, University of Virginia
Pavilion IX, West Range
Pavilion X, East Range
Columns, University of Virginia
Main Door, Pavilion IV, West Range
Pavilion Garden, University of Virginia
Hotel Colonnade, West Range (a second row of buildings behind the Lawn, with the Gardens between)
Hotel, West Range, and Colonnades
East Range Colonnade, University of Virginia
Lower West Oval Room, Rotunda, University of Virginia
Grand Staircase, Rotunda, University of Virginia
Alexander Galt life-sized statue of Thomas Jefferson (1861), Upper Entrance Hall, Rotunda, University of Virginia
Dome Room, Rotunda, University of Virginia
Dome oculus, Rotunda, University of Virginia
Dome Room, Rotunda, University of Virginia (showing bookshelves - this building housed the original library, as planned by Jefferson)
North Front, Rotunda, University of Virginia
Sundial, North of the Rotunda, University of Virginia
North Front, Rotunda, University of Virginia (with Jefferson statue)
Departing Charlottesville
Freakish cloud formation