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Jeffersonian architecture, the Glossary

Jeffersonian architecture is an American form of Neo-Classicism and/or Neo-Palladianism embodied in the architectural designs of U.S. President and polymath Thomas Jefferson, after whom it is named.^[1]

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Jeffersonian Revival architecture
Thomas Jefferson buildings

Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio (Andrea Paładio; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic.

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Bank of Pennsylvania

The Bank of Pennsylvania or the Pennsylvania Bank can refer to two institutions: one that existed during the American Revolutionary War, and another chartered by the state in 1793.

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Barboursville (James Barbour)

Barboursville is the ruin of the mansion of James Barbour, located in Barboursville, Virginia. Jeffersonian architecture and Barboursville (James Barbour) are Thomas Jefferson buildings.

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Belle Grove Plantation (Middletown, Virginia)

Belle Grove Plantation is a late-18th-century plantation house and estate in the northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, USA. Jeffersonian architecture and Belle Grove Plantation (Middletown, Virginia) are Thomas Jefferson buildings.

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Belle Mont

Belle Mont is a historic Jeffersonian-style plantation house near Tuscumbia in Colbert County, Alabama. Jeffersonian architecture and Belle Mont are Jeffersonian Revival architecture.

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Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe (May 1, 1764 – September 3, 1820) was an Anglo-American neoclassical architect who immigrated to the United States.

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Botetourt County, Virginia

Botetourt County is a US county that lies in the Roanoke Region of Virginia.

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Bremo Historic District

Bremo, also known as Bremo Plantation or Bremo Historic District, is a plantation estate covering over on the west side of Bremo Bluff in Fluvanna County, Virginia. Jeffersonian architecture and Bremo Historic District are Thomas Jefferson buildings.

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Brick

A brick is a type of construction material used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.

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Buckingham Courthouse Historic District

Buckingham Courthouse Historic District is a historic county courthouse complex and national historic district located at Buckingham, Buckingham County, Virginia.

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Buckingham, Virginia

Buckingham is a census-designated place (CDP; listed as Buckingham Courthouse) in and the county seat of Buckingham County, Virginia, United States.

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Charlottesville, Virginia

Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city in Virginia, United States.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Christopher Newport University

Christopher Newport University (CNU) is a public university in Newport News, Virginia.

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Classical order

An order in architecture is a certain assemblage of parts subject to uniform established proportions, regulated by the office that each part has to perform.

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Classics

Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.

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Dallas Hall

Dallas Hall is a historic building on the campus of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in University Park, Texas.

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Dome

A dome is an architectural element similar to the hollow upper half of a sphere.

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East Coast of the United States

The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard, the Atlantic Coast, and the Atlantic Seaboard, is the region encompassing the coastline where the Eastern United States meets the Atlantic Ocean.

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Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God's revelation to humanity.

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Farmington Country Club

The Farmington Country Club is a country club in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.

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Fincastle, Virginia

Fincastle is a town in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States.

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Grawemeyer Hall

Grawemeyer Hall is a building located on the Belknap Campus (main campus) of the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Greek Revival architecture

Greek Revival architecture was a style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, as well as in Greece itself following its independence in 1821. Jeffersonian architecture and Greek Revival architecture are architectural styles and Revival architectural styles.

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Italian language

Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.

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James Gibbs

James Gibbs (23 December 1682 – 5 August 1754) was a Scottish architect.

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Jefferson Memorial

The Jefferson Memorial is a national memorial in Washington, D.C., built in honor of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, a central intellectual force behind the American Revolution, a founder of the Democratic-Republican Party, and the nation's third president.

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List of ambassadors of the United States to France

The United States ambassador to France is the official representative of the president of the United States to the president of France.

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Longwood University

Longwood University is a public university in Farmville, Virginia.

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Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States.

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Lower Brandon Plantation

Lower Brandon Plantation (or simply Brandon or Brandon Plantation and initially known as Martin's Brandon) is located on the south shore of the James River in present-day Prince George County, Virginia.

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Manor house

A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

The Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) is a major historical archive specializing in early American, Massachusetts, and New England history.

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Mezzanine

A mezzanine (or in Italian, a mezzanino) is an intermediate floor in a building which is partly open to the double-height ceilinged floor below, or which does not extend over the whole floorspace of the building, a loft with non-sloped walls.

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Molding (decorative)

Moulding (British English), or molding (American English), also coving (in United Kingdom, Australia), is a strip of material with various profiles used to cover transitions between surfaces or for decoration.

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Monticello

Monticello was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third president of the United States, who began designing Monticello after inheriting land from his father at age 14. Jeffersonian architecture and Monticello are Thomas Jefferson buildings.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County.

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Nelson County Courthouse

Nelson County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Lovingston, Nelson County, Virginia within the Lovingston Historic District.

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Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany. Jeffersonian architecture and Neoclassical architecture are architectural styles and Revival architectural styles.

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Newport News, Virginia

Newport News is an independent city in southeastern Virginia, United States.

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Palais de la Légion d'Honneur

The Palais de la Légion d'honneur (French for "Palace of the Legion of Honour") is a historic building on the Left Bank of the River Seine in Paris, France.

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Palladian architecture

Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). Jeffersonian architecture and Palladian architecture are architectural styles.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Pediment

Pediments are a form of gable in classical architecture, usually of a triangular shape.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Piano nobile

Piano nobile (Italian for "noble floor" or "noble level", also sometimes referred to by the corresponding French term, bel étage) is the architectural term for the principal floor of a palazzo.

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Polymath

A polymath (lit; lit) or polyhistor (lit) is an individual whose knowledge spans many different subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems.

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Poplar Forest

Poplar Forest is a plantation and retreat home in Forest, Virginia, United States, that belonged to Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and third U.S. president. Jeffersonian architecture and Poplar Forest are Thomas Jefferson buildings.

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Portico

A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.

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President of the United States

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Ruffner Hall

The Rotunda is the name given to a building on the campus of Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. Jeffersonian architecture and Ruffner Hall are Jeffersonian Revival architecture.

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Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a private research university in University Park, Texas, with a satellite campus in Taos County, New Mexico.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.

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Southwest Mountains

The Southwest Mountains of Virginia are a mountain range centered on Charlottesville, parallel to and geologically associated with the Blue Ridge Mountains, which lie about 30 miles (50 km) to the west.

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The Lawn

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.

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The Rotunda (University of Virginia)

The Rotunda is a building located on The Lawn on the original grounds of the University of Virginia. Jeffersonian architecture and the Rotunda (University of Virginia) are Thomas Jefferson buildings.

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

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Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University is a public university in Haidian, Beijing.

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Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Tuscaloosa is a city in and the county seat of Tuscaloosa County in west-central Alabama, United States, on the Black Warrior River where the Gulf Coastal and Piedmont plains meet.

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Tuscan order

The Tuscan order (Latin Ordo Tuscanicus or Ordo Tuscanus, with the meaning of Etruscan order) is one of the two classical orders developed by the Romans, the other being the composite order.

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Tuscumbia, Alabama

Tuscumbia is a city in, and the county seat of, Colbert County, Alabama, United States.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffersonian_architecture

Also known as Jeffersonian Revival architecture, Monticello Influences.

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Jeffersonian Revival architecture

Thomas Jefferson buildings

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